A teenager who went on a rampage through an Aberdeenshire town has been warned he will be locked up if he does not change his ways.
Frazier Bell pleaded guilty to 17 charges at Aberdeen Sheriff Court yesterday, including threatening members of his family, assault, possession of a Class A drug, smashing windows and damaging cars.
The offences were committed between August 2017 and last month.
Fiscal depute Callum Thomson said the 19-year-old caused about £250 of damage at his family home in Inverurie when he lashed out at another male for refusing to take him out to buy alcohol.
Bell kicked a door, damaging it and the frame, smashed a TV and wrecked a set of blinds on Sunday, May 19..
The court heard that the teenager was then seen “running along the road carrying two empty bottles of Buckfast tonic wine” while shirtless.
About a week later, Bell’s mother and grandmother were forced to lock themselves in a bathroom when he armed himself with a pair of scissors.
Mr Thomson said: “The accused walked into the living room and screamed he was going to kill his brother.
“His family feared, and genuinely believed, he was going to harm someone.”
Other charges admitted included cocaine possession, assaulting two people including a 16-year-old girl and a vandalism spree through Inverurie causing hundreds of pounds of damage.
He broke a window on Westfield Road on April 30, struck the wing mirrors off several cars on the town’s Allan Place on May 1 and threw a brick through a flat window on Kellands Road on May 11.
Bell appeared from custody and Sheriff Andrew Miller said he had “thought very carefully” about returning him to detention “to keep other people safe”.
But Sheriff Miller instead placed Bell on a curfew meaning he is to stay at home between 7.30pm-6am for the next four months.
He is also to carry out 120 hours of unpaid work in the next six months, and to remain under supervision for the next 18 months.
The sheriff said: “You are still quite young, and you don’t have a long history of crime.
“The people who wrote the social work reports think you have a number of issues you need help with.
“Your family has taken the decision that you can’t live with them any more, but are still looking to support you.”
Bell will return to the dock in August, where his progress in completing the unpaid work order will be discussed.
Sheriff Miller warned the teenager that it was “very important progress is shown”.
He added: “You should be absolutely clear that custody will be top of the list of other options.”