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Offender threatened to set Alsatian on police               24/9/14

 

A Stornoway man who threatened to get his Alsatian dog to attack police officers and also told his ex-partner he would kill her has been jailed for 12 months.

 

Ian Murdo Macmillan was also banned from driving for 10 years over traffic violations.

 

The 30-year-old, whose address was given as 4 Cearn Shiram, Stornoway, appeared from custody on Wednesday for a sentencing hearing at Stornoway Sheriff Court.

 

He was previously convicted of eight charges.

 

Procurator fiscal David Teale told the court that a “very drunk” Macmillan forced his way into his former partner’s home, tried to go upstairs and refused to leave on 13 July.

 

He seized a table leg and gestured as if to take it off before coming at the woman with his clenched fist, said the fiscal.

 

Macmillan then threatened to “burn the house down” and “put you in a grave.”

 

One another occasion, Macmillan threatened to “set his German Shephard dog on officers” who were attending a car crash at midnight, one mile north of Carloway, Lewis, on 7 August where it “was apparent he was the driver.”

 

He also refused to give a breath test to ascertain if he was over the drink driving limit, the court heard.

 

Macmillan admitted he was driving while disqualified as well as failing to have insurance.

 

Another incident occurred when he admitted stealing a sandwich at the Western Isles Hospital in Stornoway on 13 August.

 

Macmillan also accepted he breached a bail condition and a court imposed 7pm to 7am curfew by not being at his address when police checked at 10.30pm one night last month.

 

He also broke a bail order by entering his ex-girlfriend’s house on another date.

 

Sheriff David Sutherland said there was no alternative but prison for Macmillan’s behaviour.