Sitcom star tagged over assualt
McColl's racial attack on cab driver
Scottish sitcom star Iain McColl has been ordered to wear an electronic tag after attacking a taxi driver and calling him a ‘Paki’.The former Rab C Nesbitt star admitted assaulting Mark Kirkpatrick and acting in a racially aggravated manner.
The attack happened after the actor took a taxi home after a drinking session in central Glasgow in October, but became aggressive towards the driver, who stopped the car. The two men got out, and McColl head butted him.
Glasgow Sheriff Court ordered the 54-year-old, who played Dodie in Rab C Nesbitt to stay at home between 7pm and 7am every day for two months.
McColl, who has had a long-running problem with alcohol, also played Big Tam in Eighties sitcom City Lights and recently appeared as Charlie the Lollipop Man in Still Game. Coincidentally, he played a taxi driver in the 2002 Channel 4 sitcom The Book Club.
Last year, he escaped assault charges over allegedly headbutting, punching and dragging one woman and pinning another to the wall because he was too ill to stand trial. He was undergoing chemotherapy for cancer at the time.
Published: 19 Feb 2009
