A court was placed into lockdown after a lawyer said he was suffering from Covid-19 minutes after he left the building. Defence solicitor Graeme Cunningham, a former police officer, was representing several clients at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court on Thursday.
And within an hour of leaving the Ayrshire courthouse he contacted staff to say he had received the results of his Covid test - and that he was positive.
Court employees, other lawyers and the sheriff who had been in the courtroom were said to be anxious about continuing with the remaining cases when told.A deep clean of the courtroom had to be carried out while the remaining cases were transferred to another part of the building.It's understood Cunningham, 57, had returned from a 10-day