A nude pensioner terrorised guests and staff at a luxury resort hotel by brandishing scissors and threatening to slit their throats during a drunken rampage.

Robert Fergus, of Balcomie Terrace, Troon, was joined by his wife Ruth, who was sporting just a nightie as she threatened to gun down staff in the lobby of the MacDonald Loch Rannoch Hotel in Perthshire.

Fergus, 72, a retired chartered surveyor, was completely naked as he ran amok with a pair of scissors in the hotel's public reception on February 4 this year during he and his wife's weekend break.

He picked up a restaurant sign and smashed a window pane with it and then used the scissors to slash communications cables at the reception.

Staff at the hotel were so scared of the couple they fled for their lives and ran two miles on foot to the safety of the nearest village.

Fergus was eventually caught drunk at the wheel of his £65,000 BMW and the couple spent the night in jail.

He appeared at Perth Sheriff Court on Thursday as he and Mrs Fergus were described as being "out of control" during the episode.

Fergus - who is a school charity fundraiser and rugby club committee member - was fined a total of £2750 and ordered to pay the hotel £800 in compensation to cover the cost of the damage he caused.

He admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive manner with a pair of scissors, while shouting, swearing and threatening violence towards Scott and Marcelene Glen, Tomasz Baraonnski and Julia Titkova.

He also admitted wilfully destroying property by smashing a pane of glass and causing extensive damage to servers by cutting cables.

He was banned from driving for a year for being around twice the legal limit as he and his wife fled from the hotel.

Mrs Fergus, who was not present in court on Thursday, was fined £1350 for causing fear or alarm at the hotel by threatening guests and staff with violence.

Staff and guests ran from the hotel towards the village of Kinloch Rannoch in Highland Perthshire.

Fergus- who previously worked for global engineering company Amec Foster Wheeler - refused to comment as he left court.