Gloag Family Abduction And Robbery Trial Latest

One of the men accused of abducting and robbing members of the Gloag family has been ordered to attend a psychiatric hospital for a 28 day assessment. Christopher McMultan will be detained at Murray Royal Hospital in Perth until 5 March after the ruling was made during a brief private hearing at Perth Sheriff Court. The development in the case comes days after McMultan's co-accused had to be carried into court in a wheelchair to be fully committed for trial. Four officers from prison escort firm G4S lifted Brian Martin up several steps into Perth Sheriff Court to face a petition alleging he tied up and robbed the family at knifepoint. Martin, 57, and Christopher McMultan, 40, were both initially remanded in custody and fully committed for trial. Both are alleged to have abducted members of the Gloag family while armed with knives, and stealing over £200,000 worth of jewellery and cash from them. Martin and McMultan are both alleged to have stormed into the family home before ordering them to the floor and binding their wrists and feet with tape. It is alleged the duo held a knife at the throat of Sarah Gloag - daughter-in-law and step-daughter of Stagecoach supremo Ann Gloag - and abducted her and her husband Sundeep Salins. The duo are alleged to have also tied and bound two children, aged 15 and nine, who were in the couple's home at Kinfauns House near Perth, on 19 January. Martin, Viewlands Place, Errol, and McMultan, Sidlaw Terrace, Glencarse, are alleged to have worn masks and attacked and abducted David Gilfoyle and Joanne Miles at their home in Drummond Street, Muthill, Perthshire, on 18 January. They are accused of ordering the couple to lie face down on the floor, binding their wrists and feet with tape and detaining them against their will. Martin and McMultan are alleged to have pushed past Ms Miles to gain entry, presented knives at the couple, held a knife at Mr Gilfoyle's throat and demand entry to the Post Office below their home. They are alleged to have shouted, sworn, repeatedly demand money and threatened them with violence before robbing them of a wallet and its contents. The second charge alleges that the following day the same men turned up at Sarah Gloag's home and attacked the occupants after pushing past her to get in while wearing masks. The charge alleges they ordered the couple and two children to lie face down on the floor with their wrists and feet taped and detained them against their will. It is alleged they also held a knife to Sarah Gloag's throat and robbed them of jewellery worth £200,000 and £4,000 in cash. On 20 January, they are alleged to have tried to pervert the course of justice by throwing stolen jewellery out of a Nissan Qashqai car on the A92 Dundee to Glenrothes road. It is alleged they threw the jewellery out of the moving vehicle because they knew it was stolen and they were attempting to avoid detection and prosecution. Martin also faces the fourth charge of driving dangerously on the same road near the Logie turn-off by reversing into a marked police vehicle and driving towards a police officer. It is alleged the officer had to take evasive action to avoid being struck. Sarah Gloag, 39, is both Ann Gloag's daughter-in-law and her step-daughter. She is the daughter of David McLeary, who married Mrs Gloag several years ago.