A man wrote “kill all police” in excrement and blood after he was arrested for causing a disturbance at an Ellon hotel.
Connor Burnett stripped off, bit his finger and defecated on the floor of his cell while being held in custody for attacking bar staff at the Buchan Hotel.
Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard the 22-year-old then wrote a series of threats to “murder” and “rape” police on the walls.
Burnett’s own solicitor described his client’s actions as “foul and disgusting”.
Fiscal depute David Rogers told the court that at around 10.20pm on November 16 last year witnesses were socialising in the bar of the Bridge Street hotel when Burnett became verbally abusive.
Petrol bomb threat
“He was asked to leave and did so. However, five minutes later the accused returned and kicked the front door of the premises before running away,” Mr Rogers said.
“The accused again returned to the locus and entered from the rear.
“He was asked to leave once more and again became verbally abusive and as he was being ejected from the locus he threw a punch at a bar worker, which was blocked.”
Burnett then told staff he was going to “petrol bomb” the hotel and the police were called.
At around 11pm, officers found Burnett on a nearby street and arrested him, taking him to Kittybrewster Police Station in Aberdeen.
Hours later, while in his cell, Burnett began to act in a volatile manner by biting his fingers and causing them to bleed before defecating on the floor.
He smeared messages, such as “murder police”, “rape police” and “kill all police”.
Burnett pleaded to one charge of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner and a second charge of assault.
He also admitted a further charge of writing threatening remarks in relation to police officers in blood and excrement.
‘He is deeply ashamed’
Defence agent Ian Woodward-Nutt told the court that his client was “deeply ashamed” of his “foul and disgusting behaviour”.
He added: “Mr Burnett is a young man who has struggled with poor mental health since he was at school.
“This has impacted a lot of his behaviour in his life and the disgraceful conduct we have heard about today.
“There is little that can be said in mitigation about this, however, this has acted as a wake-up call to him and he now barely ever uses alcohol.”
Sheriff Margaret Hodge told Burnett: “Although this was an unpleasant offence for all who had to witness it, you have a relatively small number of previous convictions and have shown remorse.”
She sentenced Burnett, of Gordon Place, Ellon, to a community payback order with one year of supervision.
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