Two oil workers have made a desperate plead to Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish First Minister, to help bring them home after an incident in Azerbaijan.

The two Scottish nationals Allan Tait and Mark Munro have been involved in what has been described as a nightclub brawl while ashore from a BP rig on a night out in Azerbaijan’s capital city Baku.

The men were detained by local police and had their passports and travel documentation seized until they appeared in court.

Other UK Nationals involved in the fracas have been allowed to leave the country and return home without further issues with local officials.

Mr Tait a mechanic from Aberdeen, who is 21, admitted he was involved in the incident and has said he has paid several thousand pounds in compensation at request of local authorities and believed all charges against him had been subsequently dropped.

Mr Munro, an offshore industrial cleaner working for Cape, has been cleared of any involvement in the incident by Baku Police after they revealed they had no incriminating evidence against him.

The men where set free and returned to work as normal, thinking the incident had been resolved, only to then be ordered back ashore by police and were again stripped of their documentation and passports, pending further investigation.

After intervention and pressure from the British Embassy, both men then had their passports and documents returned to them, but have been banned from leaving the country by Azerbaijani officials and have been forced to stay in local hotels at their own expense.

Mr Munro commented on his situation, “The embassy say that it’s to do with procedures and they can’t seem to intervene.

“We keep being told it’s this week, but weeks have gone by and become months. It’s scary stuff.”

The men’s family members have reached out to the Scottish First Minister to help with the situation.

Mr Munro’s parents have stressed in a letter to Ms Sturgeon, they worry for their son’s health writing that the “strain of this ongoing saga is taking its toll and we know he is feeling very down”.

A spokesman for the Scottish Government said: “We have received Mr and Mrs Munro’s letter, and will respond to it in due course.

“We note that Mr Munro is receiving consular assistance in Azerbaijan. We will make contact with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to establish the facts of the case, and will be happy to offer any help that we can.”

A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: “We can confirm we are providing consular assistance to a British national in Azerbaijan.”

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