A drug addict ripped the needle from his arm to threaten police after they broke down his bathroom door during his arrest.
Mathew Harris had answered the door to officers who arrested him in relation to a warrant.
He asked to go to the bathroom before leaving the Buckhaven property but locked the door and refused to open it.
Fiscal depute Claire Bremner told Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court “Police forced entry to the bathroom.
“The accused was on the floor.
“He quickly got to his feet and police officers saw him remove a needle from his arm.
”He brandished it towards them.
“The shouted at him to put the needle down but he failed to comply.
”There was a struggle and the needle was dropped in the bath.
“The accused recovered it and brandished it.”
Officers readied a Taser but incapacitated Harris using PAVA spray.
Harris’s solicitor said he had taken diamorphine that day and had gone to the bathroom to take “one final hit”.
Harris, of Quality Street, Dysart, admitted assaulting police on January 23.
Sentence was deferred for reports and Harris was remanded in custody.
Baby ingested cocaine
A Blairgowrie man has admitted endangering a newborn baby’s life by allowing it to ingest cocaine. Goe Wheeler, 30, appeared at Perth Sheriff Court and admitted acting in a culpable and reckless manner.
Refused to call ambulance
A Fife abuser who refused to call an ambulance for a girl who overdosed has avoided a prison sentence.
Paul Lowe also repeatedly squeezed the girl’s neck, threatened to stab her in the stomach and poured beer over her head during an appalling course of violence and controlling behaviour spanning 31 months at various locations in Fife, including at hotels in Kirkcaldy and Edinburgh.
Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court heard previously he assaulted the teenager on various occasions, once breaking her nose by headbutting her.
He also controlled who she spoke to, demanded she send him photos to prove where she was and repeatedly told her to kill herself.
On one occasion when the girl took an overdose, he told her to call an ambulance herself because he was not going to help her.
The court also heard Lowe illegally had sex with the girl when she was 15 and he was 17.
He admitted this charge and two further offences of breaching bail conditions not to contact the girl.
Lowe, of Burntisland’s Piper Crescent was sentenced to a two-year supervision order and a conduct requirement to undertake offence-focused work around domestic abuse, as a direct alternative to custody.
Returned to prison
Convicted child rapist Dean McKinney, 31, from Dundee has been jailed again for trying to groom what he thought was a young teenager. He did know he was actually talking to a paedophile hunter gang. He punched himself in the face when they confronted him.
Abusive texts from ‘missing’ man
Kevin Hart has been ordered to stay away from his ex-partner after he called her a “mink” in a series of abusive texts.
Hart, 41, of Newport-on-Tay, was reported missing when he fired off the messages to the woman at her home in Perth.
He appeared at Perth Sheriff Court and admitted sending “abusive” messages referring to his former partner in “derogatory terms” on July 8.
Fiscal depute Elizabeth Hodgson said: “On July 7, following a fall-out, the accused left the home (Kite Way, Perth) without saying where he was going.
“At about 11am the next day, it came to light that the accused had sent a number of text messages to family and friends which were of concern.
“Police were contacted and he was reported as a missing person.”
Ms Hodgson said: “The complainer sent him a number of messages, asking where he was.
“The accused began to send insults and abusive messages.”
Hart told his partner “you are a lying slut” and called her a “mink”.
By 5pm, Hart was traced by police.
He told officers: “I did text her, I probably shouldn’t have done that.”
Ms Hodgson said the partner had asked for a non-harassment order to be put in place “for as long as possible.”
Sheriff David Hall told Hart: “You have described yourself as disgusted and ashamed of your behaviour and so you should be.”
Hart, of Kinbrae Court, was sentenced to 80 hours of unpaid work and placed on supervision for 12 months – the same length of time as the non-harassment order imposed.
Two sisters have admitted assaulting a woman and a man after a funeral in Blairgowrie. Casey and Shareen McGivern flew into a rage during a “heated discussion” and pushed one victim to the ground before kicking and punching her.
Six-times limit
A 38-year-old drink-driver was more than six times the legal limit on a Dunfermline road.
Russell McNaughton pled guilty to driving a car under the influence (144mics/22) in the city’s Drum Road on September 1 this year.
Sheriff Wylie Robertson deferred sentencing until November 9 for the production of background reports.
McNaughton, of Drummond Place in Blackridge, West Lothian, was banned from driving in the meantime.
Drink-drive nurse
A Fife nurse was caught driving while more than five times the legal drink-drive limit. Karen Nicholson was found in a car by police officers responding to reports of a collision in South Parks Road, Glenrothes.
