Shamed boxer Harrison in drink-drive arrest

May 7 2008

POLICE on patrol near Larkhall arrested boxer Scott Harrison on suspicion of drink-driving.

It happened at 10.45pm on April 22 at Lanark Road End, Ferniegair.

The 30-year-old former champion was driving a Volkswagen Lupo... and was accompanied by a 15-year-old girl from the Larkhall area.

Her family are said to be deeply upset over the revelation by police that the girl had been associating with the fighter.

Harrison, of Holmhills Road, Cambuslang, had been pulled over by police who considered that he was driving “erratically”.

He was breathalysed and arrested on suspicion of drink-driving.

Harrison was taken to Hamilton Police Station where he underwent blood tests.

Police are currently awaiting the results of those tests.

Harrison has so far not been charged with any offence.

However, he faces being reported to the procurator fiscal if the tests show that his blood-alcohol limit exceeds the legal limit.

In March, the former world featherweight boxing champion was ordered to carry out 200 hours’ community service for his role in a disturbance at a Glasgow city centre pub.

He pleaded guilty to breach of the peace and resisting arrest in the incident at the Counting House bar in 2006.

Harrison has also been involved in other widely-reported drink-fuelled incidents.

They left him facing charges in Spain and may cost him his boxing career.

In 2006, Harrison had his boxing licence suspended after failing to defend his WBO title against Nicky Cook in London.

In August last year, he applied to the British Boxing Board of Control stewards to have his boxing licence reinstated.

BBBC general secretary Simon Block said a hearing to determine whether Harrison should be allowed to box professionally again had not yet been heard.

Mr Block told the Advertiser: “He has had three missed hearings: two adjourned at his request and a third adjourned by us because we had not received certain information.

“We have now received that information and it has been circulated to our stewards.

”As to what happened on (April 22), we will have to give that consideration as appropriate.”