Nose bite hamster row thug is jailed for meat cleaver threat
BLADE MANIAC JAILED FOR 20 MONTHS McLeod said he would ‘cut up’ man – witness
A THUG once convicted of biting off a friend’s nose in a row about a pet hamster was jailed yesterday for 20 months after being found armed with a meat cleaver. Kurtis McLeod, 28, was found with the weapon in Glasgow’s Pollok in April. Police were alerted after McLeod threatened to “cut up” a man in the street. The offence took place two years after he assaulted William Thomson to his severe injury in an argument
BY CONNOR GORDON over the care of a hamster. An enraged McLeod had stripped off before hitting William with a glass bottle and a TV remote – and then bit off part of his nose.
McLeod was locked up for two years and eight months after he pled guilty to charges at Hamilton Sheriff Court.
At Glasgow Sheriff Court yesterday, he admitted the unlawful possession of the meat cleaver in a public place.
The court heard McLeod had served 81 days of a previous sentence when he carried out the offence.
In April’s incident, officers were stopped by a man on Pollok’s Brockburn Road and told about McLeod and another man.
Prosecutor Mark Allan said: “He advised the accused shouted, ‘Do you want me to cut you up?’ while having his hand in his pocket.
“The witness believed he was holding a bladed article.”
Officers tracked McLeod to Leverndale Crescent and saw him throw a blackhandled meat cleaver over a garden hedge. The weapon was recovered and McLeod was arrested.
Solicitor Sandy Morrison, who was defending McLeod, told the court the dad of one knew a custodial sentence was “inevitable”.
Sheriff Johanna Johnston QC told McLeod: “You had a job and a chance to support your child but this was the choice you made to commit this offence.”
Sheriff Johnston ordered him to complete 70 days of his previous sentence before starting his 20-month term.