Jail for Dundee man whose knife threats forced victim to jump 40ft from window

A Dundee man who threatened another male with a knife, forcing him to leap from a 40ft high window and break his ankle trying to escape, has been jailed.

Frederick Thomson went to his former partner’s house in Lilybank Terrace in an attempt to reconcile with her, but flew into a rage when he found a man’s clothes in her bedroom.

Thomson, 22, of King Street, Broughty Ferry, admitted behaving in a threatening and abusive manner towards his ex-partner and a man who was in her house on August 3 2013.

Jailing Thomson for 202 days, Sheriff Charles Macnair told him: “You made threats to her and you threatened to harm yourself. Worse, you then made threats to slash the man who was perfectly lawfully present.

“Not surprisingly, he took steps to distance himself from the threat of serious and even possibly fatal violence and jumped from the window and suffered severe injury.

“You may not have meant to cause him harm but he couldn’t have known you wouldn’t carry these threats out.

“Any offence with a knife must be dealt with seriously.”