iOS - Android Hamilton Sheriff Court heard the incident happened in the early hours of the morning after the officers asked him to keep the noise down.One officer said that as they were going down the stairs of the common close, McMahon "almost threw himself over the banister".He said 'is this the coronavirus?
Aye.' and coughed on them twice.Jennifer Cunningham, prosecuting, told the jury: "This was at the height of the first coronavirus lockdown."These police officers were key workers trying to enforce the rules put in place to keep us all safe."They had made numerous requests for Christopher McMahon to calm down and go back into the flat, but he wouldn't listen and coughed at them in a moment of anger."It was a deliberate attack in.