A man accused of running naked through Dundee’s Toys R Us before picking up and abducting a boy has made his first public court appearance.
Przemyslaw Kaluzny faces 13 charges, including allegedly assaulting the youngster’s grandmother with a cricket bat, which prosecutors say took place on Easter Sunday.
He is alleged to have stolen a mobile phone from a neighbour’s flat before intentionally exposing his genitals to her by removing his clothing and lying on her bed.
The 41-year-old, of Watson Street, is then alleged to have stolen a bat from the flat before taking and driving away a Renault Laguna car from outside the flat in Dundee’s Watson Street.
He is then alleged to have driven the motor from the Baxter Park area of the city to the Kingsway Retail Park without insurance and without a licence.
A further charge alleges that he had an offensive weapon – namely the bat – with him in public.
Prosecutors say Kaluzny then went into the Toys R Us and committed a breach of the peace by behaving in a disorderly manner and running into the store whilst in possession of a cricket bat.
He is then said to have removed his clothing, shouted, bawled, entered the toilets and adopted a menacing and aggressive attitude, brandished the bat, struggled violently with staff and customers and placed those staff and customers in a state of fear and alarm.
Kaluzny is further accused of an offence of public indecency by moving through the store whilst naked.
He is then alleged to have abducted a boy, who cannot be named, by picking him up and attempting to run out of the shop whilst carrying him and detaining him against his will.
Kaluzny then allegedly assaulted the boy’s grandmother by striking her on the head with the bat to her injury.
A final charge alleges that he wilfully destroyed property belonging to another while he was being transported from the store to Dundee’s police HQ in that he snapped the plastic casing and metal connecting bar of a pair of police handcuffs.
Nicola Brown, defending, said: “I would ask for a continued first diet in order to obtain a psychiatric report.”
Sheriff Elizabeth Munro continued the case to July 14.