A knife obsessive “kissed his grandmother goodbye” before he took a bag of blades to “exact revenge” on another man.
Conor Munro, from Arbroath, was jailed for more than three years after Forfar Sheriff Court heard he posed a “significant and random danger to the public” due to his self-professed love of carrying knives.
Munro, 21, took a bag of nine blades from his grandmother’s kitchen, ranging from four to 10 inches, before turning up at his ex-girlfriend’s door in search of a man in the house.
Munro previously admitted an indictment alleging that on October 5 last year, at Sidney Street in Arbroath, he behaved in a threatening manner and attempted to enter the property in possession of a knife and a bag of knives.
Sentencing him, visiting Sheriff Valerie Johnston said Munro only avoided the maximum sentence under statute four years in jail due to his early guilty plea.
She said: “He took these knives with intent to exact revenge on a young man who he believed disrespected him.
“He kissed his grandmother goodbye, told her he loved her, and he knew he was going on a course of action that meant he would go to prison.”
Sheriff Johnston said a report compiled by social workers betrayed a dangerous “ideation about knives” possessed by Munro.
“It says that when he drinks, he looks to take a knife,” she said. “With a knife, he said, no one thinks they are better than him.”
Defence solicitor Lynne Sturrock said: “He is under no illusion that custody is the only option for him.
“He apologised to his grandmother and said he wouldn’t be back.”
The court previously heard Munro’s 22-year-old ex-girlfriend had asked him to leave when he appeared at her home around 4.30am.
However, he returned 30 minutes later and when she opened the door she saw him holding a knife at waist level, and a bag in his other hand.
Munro tried to enter the flat to approach a man who was also in the property, asking him: “Do you think you’re a big man now?”
The man phoned 999 and Munro then left the flat to go to his father’s house, where police traced him shortly after.
Officers found a range of steak knives which the accused had taken from his grandmother’s home, with whom he stayed at the time.
Munro has been on remand or licence for four of the last six years.
In 2011, he was convicted of assaulting a woman on December 30 2010 with intent to rob at the High Court in Edinburgh.