Addict refused to leave after taking heroin in someone else’s home

A Dundee man was jailed after injecting himself with heroin in another person’s house and then refusing to leave.

Douglas Laidlaw, 35, of Jessie Devlin Close House, Soapwork Lane, admitted that, between August 27 and August 29, at a property in Tulloch Court, he behaved in a threatening or abusive manner by causing damage to the furnishings, refused to leave the property, injected a substance in the presence of the occupier and threatened her.

Laidlaw claimed he had mistaken the house for his brother’s property. When the occupier returned home, Laidlaw was with another male, sitting on the sofa.

He was taken from the property by police.

He was jailed for a year.