A Fife hairdresser assaulted two bouncers at a Dunfermline nightclub, then threatened to kill them and rape their children.
Liam Baxter, 21, was being escorted out of Lourenzos nightclub in the city’s St Margaret Street when he began lashing out at the door staff.
He spat at them while being restrained on the ground.
Dunfermline Sheriff Court heard he made repeated vile threats of sexual violence towards police officers and said he would rape their children during the incident, which took place around 2.30am on September 12 last year.
Procurator fiscal depute Jamie Hilland said in one instance he told an officer he was going to cut off her child’s testicles.
Attacked nightclub bouncers
The fiscal depute told the court Baxter had been behaving erratically in the nightclub’s smoking area and was asked to leave by two door supervisors – a woman and a man.
When he refused, they escorted him out, each holding one of his arms.
He wriggled free and started hitting the woman in the shoulder and kicking her leg.
The court heard when outside, Baxter grabbed the man’s right hand and bit his two middle fingers.
He then bit his left hand, puncturing the skin.
The door staff managed to restrain him on the ground until police arrived but he spat on the man’s face and arm and on the woman’s clothing.
The fiscal depute said: “While being restrained, the accused was shouting and swearing, threatening to kill both (door supervisors), and threatening to rape them and rape their kids.
“He also threatened to shoot them.”
Racist abuse and rape threats
When police officers arrived, they heard the threats being made to the door staff.
Police arrested Baxter and placed a spit hood on him and took him to Dunfermline police station.
While in the back of the police van, he repeatedly called the officers “fat baldy c***s” and “black piggy b****rds” and made further rape threats towards one of the male officers.
The fiscal depute said Baxter repeatedly threatened to rape the officers’ children and made further explicit remarks of sexual violence towards them.
Baxter, of Kirktoun Gardens in Ballingry, pled guilty to two charges of assaulting each door supervisor at Lourenzos on September 12 last year.
He admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive manner towards them by making threats of violence and threatening them and their families with sexual violence.
Baxter also pled guilty to a fourth charge of repeatedly making derogatory remarks to police officers and threatened them and their families with violence and sexual violence.
Prison warning
Defence lawyer Aime Allan said Baxter, who was 20 years old at the time of the offence, has “little to no recollection” of the events.
He had started drinking at around 9pm earlier that night in Inverkeithing.
The solicitor said Baxter had consumed a large quantity of alcohol and his last recollection was getting into a taxi to Dunfermline.
Ms Allan said her client, who is employed full time in a hairdressing salon and studies at college, fully accepts the conduct as described.
The court heard he is also a first offender.
Sheriff Charles Macnair adjourned sentencing until July 13 for the production of background reports.
The sheriff told Baxter: “I am just prepared to allow your bail to continue, having regard to your lack of record and age and the fact you are in employment.
“But that’s no guarantee whatsoever you will receive a non-custodial sentence.
“These are extremely serious offences you have committed and it will have to be an extremely good report if you are to remain at liberty, in my view.”
