A Montrose man who begged police to pepper spray him in a tense doorstep standoff must be sentenced all over again.
Shaun Murray will also be sentenced for making threatening phone calls in November after reports have been prepared.
Last year, Murray was given a community payback order following a bizarre confrontation with police.
He phoned police to say he would pepper spray officers and then unleashed a can of pet-safe spray at a constable who came to his home.
The doorstep confrontation took place just a day after police had conducted a welfare check at his home.
On April 2 last year, Murray phoned police just after 6.30pm to warn them he had a can of illegal pepper spray – treated as a weapon under the law – and threatened to use it towards officers.
During the call, he also claimed to have a knife.
On his doorstep, Murray told police: “I want to be sprayed. I’ll spray you first and you’ll have to spray me.”
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However, the community payback order was revoked at a hearing last month and Murray now must be sentenced again.
This week, 41-year-old Murray, of Lamb Way in Montrose, also admitted breaching the Communications Act 2003 again.
He made threats of violence towards himself and others to two women over the course of phone calls made from his home.
Murray admitted the comments he made were grossly offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing.
The calls took place just one month after he admitted his pepper spray rant in the dock at Dundee Sheriff Court.
Sheriff Garry Sutherland called for fresh reports at a hearing at Forfar Sheriff Court and deferred sentencing on both matters until June 1.
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