A JOHNSTONE man is facing trial over an alleged attack on two paramedics.
Andrew John Sloway, of Canal Street, is said to have lashed out at the emergency workers on November 3 last year.
Prosecutors claim 35-year-old Sloway assaulted the men in the town’s Elm Drive while they were responding to a 999 call.
He is accused of butting paramedic technician Paul McIntosh on the head and attacking Martin Robertson, also a paramedic technician, by pushing him.
Sloway faces a third charge of behaving in a threatening or abusive way by shouting, swearing and threatening violence on the same occasion.
A fourth charge states that he was in possession of cocaine, a class-A drug, at Greenock police station the following day.
Sloway pleaded not guilty to all four charges at Paisley Sheriff Court in November, with Sheriff Lindsey Kooner adjourning the case for a trial and pre-trial hearing to take place.
At a pre-trial hearing last week, Sloway again pleaded not guilty and the case was adjourned for a further pre-trial hearing to take place.
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