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Scots hotel mayhem as man swung from £50k glass chandelier in front of horrified guests
21.10.2022 - 07:15 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A guest has admitted trashing a £50,000 chandelier by clambering over a balcony and swinging on it 60 feet above the hotel reception area.
Offshore worker Ross MacPhail carried out the bizarre death-defying stunt as guests were gathering for breakfast at the Sleeperz Hotel in Dundee.
The roustabout swung on the elaborate chandelier for several minutes and was still swinging on it four floors up when police arrived to talk him down.
He deliberately banged several of the glass pendants together to smash them and shards of glass fell into the public foyer as horrified guests watched on.
Dundee Sheriff Court was told that the hotel initially estimated that the chandelier was so badly damaged that it would cost £50,000 to replace completely.
But fiscal depute Sarah High told the court that the company had been able to repair the original chandelier and the bill amounted to almost £8,000.
Sheriff Paul Brown deferred sentence on MacPhail for reports and warned him that he could be sent to prison because of the gravity of the incident.
He told MacPhail - who is listed online as the owner of an MoT test centre - to save up the full amount to pay the cost of the damage caused.
"This is a serious matter," Sheriff Brown said. "You have crossed the threshold to custody here. If you turn up and pay the money next time it will have a significant impact on how I deal with it.
"If you don't turn up with the money to pay it, it will have the opposite impact."
MacPhail, Jarvis Place, Carnoustie, admitted wilfully or recklessly destroying or damaging property by climbing and swinging on a chandelier and damaging pendants by striking them.
The Crown accepted his not guilty pleas to two further charges - including striking an employee with falling
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