A drug-crazed Dunfermline man, who “caused havoc” on a vandalism spree after taking a hallucinatory drug, has been jailed.
Richard Kinnear thought he was “being chased by things in his home”, Dunfermline Sheriff Court heard.
He started trashing his home before jumping out the smashed window of the first-floor flat.
He then began attacking nearby cars and smashing a neighbour’s window.
He jumped on to the roof and bonnet of a black Golf motor car causing damage to it before attacking a second vehicle, a silver Mitsubishi, striking the windows and side panels.
Damage totalling around £800 was caused by the self-employed joiner who was already on a community payback order for an analogous conviction.
Kinnear, 42, formerly of Inchkeith Court, previously admitted a string of offences which took place on July 17.
At Inchkeith Drive, he behaved in a threatening or abusive manner by shouting, swearing and uttering threats of violence.
Outside an address in Inchkeith Court, he wilfully or reckless damaged property by jumping on the roof and bonnet of a car and repeatedly struck it with a metal pole.
In the same street, he wilfully or recklessly damaged property by repeatedly striking a second car with a metal pole.
Then at another address in Inchkeith Court, he wilfully or recklessly damaged property by striking a window with a pole thereby breaking it.
Depute fiscal Craig Donald said: “On the day in question the accused was at the locus and he was of the belief that he was being chased by things in his house. He proceeded to smash up articles within his home. He then smashed the living room window and jumped out of it.
“Thereafter he approached a vehicle, jumped on the bonnet and roof and struck the vehicle with a pole. He then began to hit another car’s windscreen and side panels.
“The accused then made his way to the address in Inchkeith Court and struck the window of that property with a metal pole. It smashed after a few hits with the pole.”
Numerous calls were made to the police and when officers arrived, Kinnear began to shout and swear at them before he was placed in handcuffs and taken to hospital.
Defence solicitor Michele Renton said her client was “heartily ashamed” of his behaviour and had now moved to a new home in Fair Place, Inverkeithing.
She said he had taken the drug known as ‘magic’ and was hallucinating.
She added: “He seemed to think things were chasing him and this resulted in him running about causing havoc.”
Sheriff Charles Macnair told Kinnear: “On this evening in July you consumed drugs which are known to have potential hallucinatory effects. You took that risk and you would suffer hallucinations.”
Kinnear was jailed for four months.
