A man who wished bone cancer on a police officer’s mother has been granted bail so he can be at the hospital bedside of his own dying mum.
Ian Norrie, 43, appeared at Peterhead Sheriff Court yesterday for a bail hearing, during which he asked Sheriff Andrew Miller for his freedom to be allowed to visit his mother, who has terminal cancer.
The court heard his mother was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on Monday and he wanted to be there for her final moments.
“My mum is terribly ill, Sir,” Norrie told Sheriff Miller.
“I have to speak to her before she passes.”
Norrie is awaiting sentence after he previously admitted behaving in a threatening and abusive manner towards police who went to his home at St Andrews Drive, Fraserburgh, in February.
At a hearing in April, the court was told Norrie, who was jailed for three-and-half-years for assaulting a man over a £15 debt in 2003, was “frothing at the mouth” when officers arrived.
Fiscal depute Stephanie Ross said: “He made a stabbing motion towards his neck, and said words to the effect of ‘the first one of you to come in here is getting it’.
“The accused then shut his door and barricaded himself in.”
Norrie continued his tirade from the top floor of his home and threatened to throw himself out of the window, at one point telling an officer he hoped their mother’s bones were “riddled with cancer”.
Yesterday, he was shown mercy by Sheriff Miller, who granted his bail request.
As he left the dock, he was told to keep in close contact with social workers who are currently compiling a report on his background.
“In the circumstances, Mr Norrie, I am sorry to hear about this,” Sheriff Miller said.
“A report has been called for July 13, but I realise that at a time like this things may get in the way. I would only ask that you in get in touch with the social work department if they do.”