Man who held Hotel Indigo worker hostage during 'terrifying' attack in Glasgow jailed

A man who held a hotel worker hostage during a terrifying attack has been jailed for 30 months.

Conner Coll turned on the woman last December 2.

The paranoid 26-year-old locked himself and a night auditor in a staff room at the Hotel Indigo in Glasgow city centre amid his claims that someone was trying to kill him.

Coll further accused the woman of wanting him dead as she desperately pleaded to be freed.

He then punched her, sending her sprawling, and she hit her head on a desk, which left her wounded.

Coll was sentenced at Glasgow Sheriff Court.

He had earlier pleaded guilty to abducting and assaulting the woman to her severe injury, permanent disfigurement, and permanent impairment.

He also admitted separate charges of assaults on three police officers as well as behaving in a threatening or abusive manner.

The incident was sparked after Coll dialled 999 to report that he was “going to be killed.”

He then stormed into the hotel in an “extremely agitated state” and went behind the reception.

Coll wandered next into the staff room, where he was joined by the worker.

He again claimed someone was out to kill him and closed the door.

Fiscal Lauren Aitchison said: “The office was locked with Coll and [the woman] in the room.

“He asked [the woman] to phone his mother.

“Coll then asked her if she was trying to kill him, but she showed him her badge to prove she worked at the hotel.”

Coll then stopped one of the woman’s colleagues from getting in.

The victim pleaded she was “scared” and would “do him no harm.”

Ms Aitchison added: “Coll then punched her to the right side of her face, causing her to fall back and she hit her head off the office desk, falling to the ground.”

The petrified hotel worker then curled up in a ball as the attacker tried to get on top of her, but a fellow staff member burst in and got Coll in a headlock.

Police arrived with the woman crying and wounded under her eye.

She needed stitches and has been left scarred for life. The area continues to be numb. The woman also had an injury to her shoulder.

Coll lashed out at officers, spitting at one and trying to kick two others.

The court heard Coll had taken a cocktail of drink and drugs that night.

John Kilcoyne, defending, said: “He had onset of paranoia and he fully accepts his guilt.”

Coll already had previous convictions for drugs offences and a domestic crime.