A drunk man unleashed a barrage of abuse at police officers in front of young children at a bus station.
Concerns had been raised for the welfare of Mortimer Perrie at Leven bus station after he was seen falling over and banging his head.
However, police deployed to assist him were only met with a torrent of insults.
Dundee Sheriff Court heard how numerous members of the public, including children, witnessed the incident at around 4.15pm on October 28 2023.
Fiscal depute Michael Robertson said Perrie was heard to shout: “I’ll bite your baws off.
“I’ll kill you, I’ll kill your family, I don’t care about jail.”
The 42-year-old was checked by ambulance crews but refused treatment.
He was arrested and taken to Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy but his unruly behaviour continued.
“The accused had been moved to an overflow waiting area due to kicking out at chairs and plant pots,” Mr Robertson said.
“The accused was placed in a chair by officers and kicked out at a police officer.
“He was eventually admitted into hospital and fell asleep.
“At around 10.30pm, he woke and immediately became abusive to officers.
“He threatened to kill officers and asked them for a square go when they were off-duty.”
Perrie, a prisoner at HMP Perth, admitted behaving abusively and lashing out at police officers.
The court was told how Perrie has suffered with long-term alcohol problems but was benefitting from the period spent on remand.
Sheriff John Rafferty sentenced him to six months in prison.
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Colin Bandeen, who worked in the oil industry in the Far East before setting up the motorcycle business, “corrupted the innocence” of children as young as eight in Kirriemuir and in a neighbouring town.
His crimes spanned 20 years, starting in 2001, as he sexually abused four children, behaved indecently towards a fifth and sixth and tried to worm his way into the confidence of the parents of five more.
He now faces a prison term after being found guilty at the end of a trial in Stirling.
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Luke Pirie is awaiting sentencing after he was caught driving while disqualified by police in Dundee.
In October 2016, Pirie lost control of his Ford Focus and killed two-year-old Harlow Edwards after mounting a pavement in Coupar Angus at 50mph.
Pirie was texting on his mobile phone moments before striking the toddler. A boy aged six and a 17-year-old were also injured in the crash.
In 2017, Lord Ericht ordered Pirie to serve six years in prison after sentencing him at the High Court in Glasgow.
He was disqualified from driving for seven years and would have to re-sit the extended test in order to be granted a licence again.
The 30-year-old, of Broughty Ferry Road, was hauled back into custody and pled guilty at Dundee Sheriff Court to driving disqualified and without insurance on June 20 on the A923 Lochee Road.
Sheriff Eric Brown deferred sentence until July for reports to be obtained and released Pirie on bail.
He returned to court for sentencing earlier this week but it was revealed no social work report had been prepared.
Solicitor John Boyle said it was Pirie’s position a large volume of documentation had arrived at his home the previous weekend relating to the meeting with social workers.
He claimed he did not receive any information about when an appointment would be made.
Sheriff David Hall deferred sentence until August and warned Pirie that if he failed to comply he would be remanded in custody.
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A Perth motorist banned from the road after dragging police across a car park after guzzling Buckfast was caught driving disqualified and then refused to give a breath sample.
William Mason was jailed and banned from the road for 42 months after he drove over a stinger and smashed into a police car at the end of a tense stand-off outside his former Strathtay Road home in June 2020.
Mason, now of Perth’s County Place, was caught back behind the wheel on the M9 between Stirling and Dunblane on June 8 this year, before his ban had lapsed.
At Stirling Sheriff Court, he was placed under supervision for a year, instructed to complete 167 hours unpaid work and disqualified from driving for 16 months.
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