Conon Bridge drug addict climbed onto roof and threw items during police stand-off

POLICE were involved in a 95-minute stand-off after a 35-year-old man they were seeking climbed onto the roof of a Conon Bridge house and began throwing items at the officers.

Inverness Sheriff Court heard that officers were carrying out a welfare check on drug addict Jason Cochrane on the evening of October 5 last year when they saw him crawling about the floor as if trying to hide.

Fiscal depute Emily Hood told Sheriff Eilidh Macdonald that he wouldn’t let officers into the Windsor Place property and climbed on to the roof where he ripped pieces off and threw them towards the police.

Trained negotiators were called to the scene and Cochrane managed to climb back into the house through a window.

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Ms Hood said that officers forced entry but Cochrane spat at one of them and tried to bite another while swearing and shouting abuse at them as he was being arrested.

Cochrane admitted threatening and abusive behaviour and two charges of assaulting police officers.

Defending, Natalie Paterson said: "Substance abuse has been a problem for him since childhood but he has been getting treatment on remand and a residential place in a rehabilitation centre in Glasgow is open to him."

Jailing Cochrane for 15 months backdated to October 7, Sheriff Macdonald told him: "I am hopeful your time in custody has helped you and you will continue your rehabilitation."