A court has been told jail proved a “silver lining” for a prolific Angus offender who threatened to jump across a custody room table and bite off a police officer’s nose.
Luke Cosgrove was remanded by a sheriff at Forfar because of his record of domestic offending after another allegation against him.
The 36-year-old pled guilty to a charge of breaching the peace in Arbroath when he appeared from custody at Forfar, where his lawyer revealed that Cosgrove had taken become in prison and was found to be suffering from deep vein thrombosis.
Depute fiscal Jill Drummond said Cosgrove’s arrest came after they had attended an earlier incident involving the accused and his partner and at around 9.15 pm received an anonymous call about a disturbance in Queen Street, Montrose.
“He refused to give his details and violently banged his head and hands on the inside of the police vehicle.”
In the police station, Cosgrove, of North Grimsby, Arbroath said he would climb over the table and bite off the interviewing officer’s nose.
“He tried to run from the interview room but was restrained and taken back to his cell,” she added.
Defence solicitor Nick Markowski said: “The court will be familiar with Mr Cosgrove.
“At the time of the incident he was subject to a Community Payback Order after nine or ten months on a high tariff deferred sentence.
“No further reviews had been fixed but this was certainly a blip.”
He added: “It turns out he was lucky to get remanded. He was physically pretty unwell and was discovered as having deep vein thrombosis.
“If he hadn’t been diagnosed who knows what would have happened? Every cloud has a silver lining – that has come from Mr Cosgrove.”
Sheriff Gregor Murray deferred sentence until March 9 for the preparation of a criminal justice social work report and imposed bail conditions including a ban on Cosgrove entering Montrose.
