A 23-year-old man threatened two of his family members with a knife before repeatedly striking himself with the blade and stabbing holes in a wall at the women’s home.
However, his family had pleaded with the Crown not to punish Sean Sinclair, aka Ianetta, of Hebrides Drive, and asked that he be given help for his mental health problems.
Following the recommendations of background reports, Sheriff Davidson placed Ianetta on a two-year community payback order with supervision, with a 12-month mental health treatment order under a psychologist and ordered him to be of a “sober disposition”.
Ianetta must also pay his two victims £500 each in compensation.
Sheriff Davidson told Ianetta if he was found to be substantially under the influence of alcohol, by either police officers or social workers, he would be found in breach of the order.
Ianetta had previously admitted that on January 4 2013, at 12 Grahame Avenue, Dundee, he wilfully or recklessly destroyed or damaged the property of others by throwing a telephone table at a glass-panelled door, smashing the glass, and stabbing holes in the walls with a knife.
He further admitted on the same date and place, behaving in a threatening or abusive manner likely to cause fear or alarm, shout, swear, utter threats of violence and threaten to stab the occupants of the house and repeatedly struck himself on the head with a knife; and possessing a knife.
The sheriff ordered a review of the CPO for April 29, telling Ianetta: “I regard this as a serious offence, and the family must have been terrified.
“They have suffered fear and alarm and had property damaged, so they must be compensated.”