A violent criminal walked into a pharmacy and announced that he was carrying a knife.
Airdrie Sheriff Court heard that Paul Boyle then asked for someone to call an ambulance as he was “a danger to himself and others”.
The 30-year-old admitted unlawful possession of a blade in Centre Street, Glenboig, on June 14 last year.
Lauren Cole, prosecuting, said Boyle, of Sikeside, Coatbridge, went into the pharmacy at 9.40am.
After being told he had a knife in his pocket, the pharmacist alerted the emergency services and kept talking to Boyle until police officers arrived.
They found him sitting on a seat. The officers searched him but he said that he’d put the knife in a bin outside.
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