A man is facing jail after he phoned NHS 24 and claimed he was going to murder a nurse by “stabbing her 67 times”.
Stewart McRae phoned the helpline claiming he had been shouted at by a nurse who had tended to him at hospital.
Dundee Sheriff Court was told McRae then started making threats to the operator who had answered his call.
Fiscal depute Trina Sinclair said the man threatened to murder her if he saw her again – and claimed her actions had made him think about self-harming.
She said: “He made the call to NHS 24 at 7.30pm on February 22.
“The accused said he had attended at hospital earlier that day and that a nurse shouted at him.
“He said he had 16 stitches on the face due to self-harming and he had thought abouts elf-harming again after the nurse shouted at him.
“He said: ‘That nurse, if I saw her again I’d murder her. I’d kill her and I’m not kidding. I’d stab her 67 times – I mean that, I’m not joking around’.
“Police were contacted and the accused was arrested the following day at 10am.
“He told police ‘I was trying to get help for my mental health’.”
McRae, 40, of Carlochie Place, Dundee, pleaded guilty to a charge of behaving in a threatening and abusive manner.
Sentence was deferred for social work background reports until next month.