Advocate denies indecent act

AN ADVOCATE appeared in court yesterday charged with indecently touching a 13-year-old boy in the toilets of a shopping mall.

Marc Strachan, 48, denies persuading the youngster to follow him into a public toilet at the McArthur Glen shopping centre in Livingston, West Lothian.

He is accused of locking the cubicle door, touching him and attempting to pull down the boy's trousers.

Strachan, of Linlithgow, is accused of either behaving in a lewd manner or alternatively committing an indecent breach of the peace on 13 February of last year. His agent pleaded not guilty on his behalf and the case was continued for one week.