A man will be sentenced later this month after he admitted using a hockey stick to smash up a private-plated car in Perth’s Gannochy area.
Garry Watt left children who saw him in tears before fleeing by car.
The 42-year-old went to the property in Annat Road on the afternoon of August 16 last year.
The car’s owner was in her home and children were playing nearby.
One rushed to tell her what was happening as Watt used a hockey stick to smash windows.
When police arrived, fragments of wood were stuck in the glass.
He later handed himself into police.
Perth Sheriff Court also heard of an incident three before, when Watt pulled up beside the car’s owner while children were in the vehicle.
On that occasion – on July 26, at the corner of Gannochy Road and Lochie Brae – he called her a “fat, ugly b*tch” and added: “You’re dead.”
After admitting acting in a threatening or abusive manner, Watt, of Dupplin Road, will be sentenced on May 17.
Hostile in hostel
A Perth man spat in the direction of police and smashed an officer’s phone during an arrest at a city hostel.
Dawid Modrzejewski was arrested outside Greyfriars Hostel at 1.15pm on November 12 for matters no longer before court.
After being handcuffed, he resisted arrest and knocked a constable’s mobile device to the ground.
Fiscal depute Bill Kermode told Perth Sheriff Court that after this, the Polish national stamped on the phone.
He was taken into the back of a police van and “voluntarily” hit his head on the cage on the way in, and once again while inside.
This drew blood and he was taken to PRI.
En route to the hospital, he spat at the cage door. This appeared to be in the direction of the other constable.
His wound was glued shut around an hour after he was arrested and he was released back into police custody.
He began calling the constables “mongo” and “bitch” and asked “inappropriate” questions about their respective genital areas.
A day before the arrest, Modrzejewski alarmed residents at Perth’s Pomarium Street by shouting, swearing and making threats.
Aided by an interpreter, he admitted twice acting in a threatening or abusive manner.
His solicitor Paul Ralph explained that in the weeks following the incidents, Modrzejewski spent time in both Murray Royal and Carseview.
He said that the 33-year-old, of Cairns Crescent in Perth, had lost his job and things had “spiralled,” but that he has regained employment now.
Sheriff Wyllie Robertson ordered Modrzejewski to complete 150 hours of unpaid work and made a two-year supervision order with an alcohol treatment requirement as an alternative to custody.
In February, Modrzejewski was banned from driving for refusing to provide a breath sample.
He was fined in 2009 after a half-naked struggle with police in the early hours of the morning.
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