Jailed for 20 months
Twenty-six-year-old Alexander Kindred, of Glenturret Terrace, claimed he was armed with a shotgun and a crossbow - and would shoot anyone who tried to enter.
The accused, who sparked a brutal homophobic murder when he was a teenager, was jailed for 20 months when he appeared for sentence at Perth Sheriff Court.
The court was told that as he brandished a knife at the terrified woman, he revealed that he and some of his friends had “killed a man,” adding: “You don’t know what I’m capable of.”
Police Scotland declared a fullscale alert, drafting in firearms officers and trained negotiators, along with fire service and ambulance personnel.
The lengthy siege at the property in Springbank Road, Alyth, finally ended when Kindred gave himself up.
The terrifying incident unfolded when he met up with the woman after contacting her on the Tinder dating app two weeks earlier.
He was told by Sheriff William Wood: “This is a serious offence and I’m sure you appreciate that.”
As well as brandishing the blade at his victim, causing her to flee the property in fear, he had made matters “significantly worse” by threatening to shoot police.
Kindred admitted brandishing a knife at a house in Springbank Road, Alyth, between April 13 and 14 this year, repeatedly threatening to blow up a block of flats there and then set fire to himself.
Depute fiscal Carol Whyte told the court that the accused had arranged to meet up at the female’s house for their first date but he was “acting strangely” and she told him she disliked some of the language he was using.
About 11.30pm a neighbour heard him shouting and the woman attempting to calm him down.
He then removed a kitchen knife from his back pocket - it had come from her kitchen - and brandished it at her.
She became “alarmed and fearful” but he apologised and handed over the weapon.
But he then told her: “You just think I’m like all the other guys.”
She then became “very frightened” and pretended to visit the toilet but fled from the flat and ran to her sister’s house.
She was later described as being “hysterical and upset.”
The police were contacted shortly before 12.30am and officers were on the scene 10 minutes later and spoke to Kindred.
But he repeatedly threatened them, stating he had a shotgun and cross bow and said he would “shoot” them if they tried to gain entry.
The fiscal added: “He also made threats to blow up the block of flats, to set fire to himself and attempted to set his T-shirt on fire with a lighter.”
He was also “smashing up” items of furniture in the flat.
Neighbours videoed what was taking place and they could hear the accused’s repeated threats.
Kindred also claimed: “The doors are set with traps. “I’ll stab you - I’ll shoot you. “I’m going to take three of you out. I’m going to jail for murder and I’m taking you out.”
Lawyer Jamie Baxter said that the accused’s phone had gone missing and he “jumped to the totally wrong conclusion” that his date’s brotherin-law had taken it. “He lost the plot. He acted in a completely abhorrent and inappropriate manner.”
Kindred was given 12 months’ detention when he was still a 15-yearold schoolboy. He boasted about leaving gay council worker Jim Kerr (51) dying in a pool of blood on Perth’s South Inch in April, 2007.
He had punched the victim in the face then called up two friends who battered him to death after claiming the older man had propositioned him.
Afterward the trio went to a party where the teenage thug bragged: “A p*** tried it on with me and I hit him.”
The High Court in Perth heard the gang walked past Jim Kerr’s body two hours later and ignored him as he lay dying.
Kindred’s identity was protected because he was just 15 at the time of the unprovoked attack.
Co-accused David Meehan, who was 19 at the time, was jailed for life after admitting murder and 22-year-old Martin Soutar got six years for culpable homicide. Alexander Kindred leaves court
You just think I’m like all the other guys