A teen thug spat blood at law enforcement officials after threatening to stab a person and lady in the course of the night time.
Lee Ness had referred to as on the lady’s East Lothian house at 3.30am on the lookout for her daughter earlier than lobbing sick threats.
The 19-year-old instructed Kirsty Stewart and Michael Lawrie, who additionally lived on the Musselburgh handle: “You’re getting stabbed to f***”.
When police arrived to arrest Ness, he spat in a single officer’s face, tried to headbutt one other, and spat blood on the constables.
Ness appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court docket on Tuesday and pled responsible to threatening or abusive behaviour and two costs of assault.
Fiscal depute Anna Chisholm mentioned Kirsty and Michael heard banging at their entrance door and went to search out Ness was there.
Ms Chisholm mentioned Ness requested for Kirsty’s daughter, who wasn’t within the property, however refused to say who he was.
The court docket heard Ness started making threats, telling them: “I’m going to f*****g stab you.”
After the victims returned inside, Ness kicked their entrance door for “a number of minutes”, Ms Chisholm added.
Ness grew to become aggressive in direction of officers referred to as to the scene who have been placing him in a police van.
The court docket heard he spat within the face of Laptop Alan Clark, tried to kick and punch him and spat blood at him.
Ms Chisholm mentioned Ness tried to headbutt Laptop Daniel Carruthers, tried to punch and kick him, and in addition spat blood at him.
She mentioned it was 5.20am when Ness was lastly taken to St Leonards police station in Edinburgh following the incident on June 6 final yr.
Defence agent Mark Harrower mentioned his shopper, of Ormiston, East Lothian, accepted the matter was “critical”.
Sheriff Kenneth Campbell QC deferred sentence till subsequent month for stories.
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