Self-styled hard man Jay Clark lashed out at officers as they tried to arrest him
A loudmouthed lout who calls himself "the hardest c*** in Dundee" has been jailed for nine months for spitting on police officers. and told them: "I'll stick a f****** needle in your neck.
Jailing Clark, Sheriff Alistair Carmichael said: "The police don't deserve to be treated like that by anybody - no matter what." Clark, 26, from Dundee, admitted assaulting PC Paul Findlay by spitting at him in the city on 9 November 2022. He continued to make threats and managed to spit on one of the officers despite having a spit hood on. He eventually had to be placed in leg restraints.
"When he is sober he understands that, but he was not sober at the time of the offences. He has no recollection of these events. He had been drinking heavily.
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