PICTURED: Dundee Spider-Ned’s rooftop stand-off after assault

A ‘Spider-Ned’ teenager sparked a two-hour rooftop stand-off with riot police after viciously attacking his ex-girlfriend, a court has heard.

Connor McLeod who was dubbed Spider-Ned after climbing down the side of a Dundee multi-storey to flee police in 2011 threw a tile and debris at officers after scaling a house in a quiet Lochee cul-de-sac.

Police cornered the 19-year-old as he hid in a bush in a garden in Cobden Court minutes after he repeatedly punched and kicked the woman on the head and body and threw her against a parked car.

But McLeod, who neighbours said scaled the wall “like Spider-Man”, climbed onto the roof, leading to the street being sealed off while trained negotiators attempted to talk him down.

McLeod, now 20, a prisoner at Perth, admitted assaulting Ashley Deans to her injury on March 7 at Burnside Court.

He also admitted committing a breach of the peace and culpably and recklessly climbing onto the roof of a property in Cobden Court on the same date.

McLeod pled guilty to two further charges of police assault.

Mcleod will return to Dundee Sheriff Court for sentencing next month.

For more on this story see Wednesday’s Courier.