THE EX-LOVER of best-selling author Janice Galloway has been arrested in connection with alleged incidents at her home.
Pianist Graeme McNaught, 54, was arrested on Saturday at his flat in Mount Vernon before appearing at Hamilton Sheriff Court. He was held in custody until his court appearance on Monday in connection with alleged incidents at the house near Uddingston on Monday and Tuesday of last week.
Facing a total of four charges, including an offence linked to stalking laws, he appeared in private, made no plea or declaration and was given bail.
Ms Galloway, 58, lives with her opera singer husband Jonathan May near Uddingston. They share their home with their friend Alison Cameron.
Mr McNaught, a former Royal Conservatoire of Scotland lecturer, had been involved in a six-year on-off relationship with Ms Galloway during which their son James, 22, was born. They first met in 1990 as her career began to take off.
In May 2003, the pair performed together at the University of Aberdeen Writers' Festival. The collaboration paired Ms Galloway's reading of extracts from her award-winning novel Clara, about the wife of composer Robert Schumann, with Mr McNaught's playing.
Ms Galloway's debut novel, The Trick Is To Keep Breathing, was followed by top sellers such as Foreign Parts, which won the £10,000 McVittie Prize for fiction in 1994.
A former English teacher, Ms Galloway was the first Scottish Arts Council writer-in-residence to Barlinnie, Cornton Vale, Dungavel and Polmont prisons and has written and presented series for BBC Radio Scotland.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article