Man made threats to kill police officers’ children Inverness Sheriff Court is told
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A man made threats against police in Inverness after giving them a false name.
Inverness Sheriff Court was told at an earlier hearing how police were called to the city’s Maclean Court at 2am on October 12 last year, after reports of a disturbance.
When they spoke to Benjamin Clark (21) of MacGillivray Court, Inverness, he gave them a false name.
Later, en route to Burnett Road police station, he threatened to bite officers’ faces and kill their children.
After being placed in a cell he smeared faeces on the walls.
Clark pleaded guilty to charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice and behaving in a threatening manner and the court heard he had been subject to a community payback order for previous offences dating back to 2017 and 2018.
Solicitor Duncan Henderson asked that he be assessed for possible placement on a drug treatment testing order (DTTO) and sentence was deferred for that assessment to take place.
At court on Christmas Eve he was placed on the DTTO for six months.
He was also ordered to carry out 140 hours of unpaid work and warned that, in light of his record, he now faces the prospect of imprisonment any time he reoffends.
