Climbed down multi to escape cops

MCLEOD earned his “Spider Ned” nickname after climbing down the outside of Dallfield Court, a 14-storey block of flats, to evade police in 2011.

He was then involved in another stand-off with cops when they finally found him on a fourthfloor ledge of another building.

Dundee Sheriff Court was told on that occasion police had turned up to check McLeod was sticking to a bail curfew.

Police left in the afternoon and returned at 11pm to speak to him and he was allowed to go back to the living room to get his jacket.

When he didn’t return, police discovered he had gone out of the window and was climbing down the outside of the building.

Four years l a t e r, McLeod brutally assaulted a woman in two separate attacks following a party.

He returned t o hi s climbing escapades i n 2015 by using ivy to pull himself on to the roof of a house on Cobden Court to escape police, staying there for two hours while hurling a roof slate and a phone at officers and spitting at them.

Sheriff Alastair Brown jailed McLeod for stalking a woman in 2017. He repeatedly threatened to kill her in phone calls and Facebook messages, as well as posting intimate details of their relationship online.

The 23-year-old is currently serving a 22-month prison sentence after he admitted scaling a ledge and pushing a door at police armed with Tasers on South Road in August last year.