A millionaire lawyer has been fined after he was frogmarched out of a top hotel when diners complained about his lewd behaviour with a female friend.
A millionaire lawyer has been fined after he was frogmarched out of a top hotel when diners complained about his lewd behaviour with a female friend.
Property tycoon Philip Anderson was arrested after complaints about his sexual antics in full view of people in the restaurant at five-star Gleneagles Hotel.
Anderson and student Fiona Males were asked to leave after shocked guests witnessed their dining room tryst but they caused a massive furore as they were led out.
The lawyer was foul and abusive to police officers and was charged with breaching the peace and refusing to leave licensed premises.
He was initially expected to appear in court on Hogmanay but Anderson, 49, avoided that by paying a £300 fiscal fine.
To avoid the case going to court, Anderson accepted committing the two offences he was charged with during the rumpus at the hotel overnight on 6 and 7 December. Anderson and Ms Males, 39, were staying at the hotel and went to one of its restaurants.
The pair, who had been drinking, upset other guests with their increasingly explicit sexual antics.
Diners eventually reported to the hotel staff that Anderson was clearly exposed and night manager Max Duyverman was called.
By the time he arrived Anderson had already had an angry confrontation with one of the diners who had asked him to curb his filthy behaviour.
The hotel management were also abused and the couple were asked to leave the hotel immediately, which they declined to do, and police were called.
As Anderson and Ms Males were escorted from the prestigious hotel they continued to shout and swear and struggled with the two police officers. The couple were eventually arrested and taken away in a police vehicle.
Anderson, who has a £1m home in Bridge of Allan, is a former senior property partner at blue-chip Edinburgh legal firm Dickson Minto and is believed to be worth about £5m.
He left to form his own company, Granite Edge, from which he has now split.
The father-of-four is estranged from his second wife Elaine. He has been in a relationship with divorcee Ms Males for some time.
The case against Ms Males including further charges of struggling with the police and trying to rescue Anderson from custody was dropped.
