A man who told a police officer he hoped his mother died from cancer has been sentenced at Peterhead Sheriff Court.
Ian Norrie, 43, was handed an 18-month supervision order for acting in a threatening and abusive manner towards the officer.
His appearance came just weeks after he was bailed to visit his own terminally ill mother.
In February, Norrie had threatened to stab officers who attended his St Andrew’s Drive home in Fraserburgh to detain him for an unrelated matter.
At an earlier hearing, fiscal depute Stephanie Ross told the court that officers had found him “frothing at the mouth” when he opened his front door on February 27.
She 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’.”
And he said to one officer “I hope your mother’s bones are riddled with cancer and she dies”.
Norrie also made a gesture to throw a broken bottle at one officer before he was found unconscious within his home.
Yesterday, Norrie’s defence agent, Keidra Morrison, said he was “regretful” for his actions.
Youngsters had been returning from school at the time of the incident and witnessed the exchange between Norrie and police, the court heard.
“He had been in quite a distraught state as the medication he was previously on had been withheld from him,” Ms Morrison told Sheriff Andrew Miller.
“He was hallucinating and was in quite a bad state. He accepts, my lord, it is not something the public wish to view and he is regretful for that.
“Since then, he has obviously sought help and is willing to accept help from whichever source is available to him.”
Norrie will be appointed a supervising officer for the next 18-months and will receive support for any issues he has.
Sheriff Miller had described Norrie’s case as “very unpleasant”.