A topless man waved an eight-inch knife above his head while jumping into his neighbours’ gardens and shouting at them, Dundee Sheriff Court heard.
Gerrard Wilkinson, 42, of Fleming Gardens North, admitted that on October 13 last year, at St Columba Gardens, he behaved in a threatening or abusive manner by shouting, swearing, entering neighbour’s gardens and brandishing a knife.
Wilkinson’s “bizarre” behaviour started at 9.45am on October 13 when a neighbour heard someone shouting “freedom” and swearing in St Columba Gardens.
Fiscal depute Kirsten Letford told the court the witness looked out of her window, saw it was Wilkinson and ignored it because “she deemed this normal behaviour for him”.
An hour later he then jumped a wall into another neighbour’s garden while topless and holding an eight-inch bread knife in his hand. The fiscal said: “He took hold of the only flower in the garden, before chopping it off with the knife. The accused then left, throwing the flower on to the bonnet of a parked car and striking the passenger door mirror of the car with his hand.
“He was unsteady on his feet and swinging the knife erratically over his head as he walked back towards his mum’s address.”
Another neighbour then saw Wilkinson in her garden peering in the windows, before he approached two men standing nearby and shouted at them while still holding the knife.
Solicitor Paul Parker Smith, defending, said: “His conduct in this case is bizarre. He has been diagnosed with bipolar effective disorder and takes medication for this.
“He and his brother take it in turns to look after his mother but on this occasion he did not take medication with him and had also consumed alcohol.”
Sentence was deferred until July 17 for reports.
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