A lout painter who spat a mouthful of blood into a woman police officer's face was jailed for 32 months today.
Grant Turnbull, 30, was arrested after going on the rampage at his mother's house in Bannockburn, Stirlingshire.
He punched a hole in a wall and picked up a glass candle jar and held it above the head of his mum, Anne, 63.
He told her: "You're the bad one. You're rotten.
"It's you that made me crazy in the head."
He then put the jar down and left.
The incident occurred about 1.00pm on August 23rd, after Turnbull came in drunk.
He then returned about 4.45 pm, and police were called and found him lying in the garden.
A struggle ensued and police reinforcements were called and he was eventually handcuffed.
As officers were putting him into a cage in the back of a police van he fell forward and hit his head on the floor, starting to bleed.
PC Mandy Shepherd went to help him back up.
Prosecutor Kristina Kelly said: "He immediately spat a mouthful of blood straight into her face."
Stirling Sheriff Court heard that as a result of the incident PC Shepherd had to have a hepatitis C booster and take repeated tests before being assured she had caught no blood-born contagion.
Turnbull was taken to the Forth Valley Royal Hospital to have eight stitches in a head wound, but he continued to rant, telling one of his escorting officers, "I'll kill your two boys and your wife. Next time I see you, you'll be in the ground" and calling another a "p**f" and a "b*****d".
Appearing by video link from Low Moss Prison, father-of-one Turnbull, a painter and decorator, of The Brae, Bannockburn, pleaded guilty to police assault and statutory breach of the peace.
Solicitor Ken Dalling, defending, said: "He has previously described himself and something of a Jekyll and Hyde in the context of drink.
"Alcohol had been taken on this day.
"He's never before dug quite so deep."
Mr Dalling added that from the age of just 13, Turnbull had habitually used cocaine, diazepam and cannabis.
He has previous convictions for disorder, violence, possession of drugs, and breach of bail.
Imposing the jail term, Sheriff Keith O'Mahony said Turnbull had been subject to five bail orders at the time of the incidents.
He said the spitting of blood in PC Shepherd's face was "a disgusting and atrocious assault".
