A PIZZA takeaway owner, who threatened to poison police officers buying food there, has been jailed.

After being arrested, Graham Evans warned officers that if they or their colleagues came to his takeaway in Rosyth he would lace their pizza topping with poison.

Evans, 37, has a long list of convictions for run-ins with the police, Dunfermline Sheriff Court heard before he was jailed for nine months for his latest string of offences.

His own solicitor described the drunken antics of Evans, of Dundas Street, Townhill, as “incredibly obnoxious”.

Evans smashed his car when he was drunk, failed a roadside breath test, then refused to give a breath specimen at the police station. On the way there, he had urinated in the back of the police van.

Depute fiscal Dev Kapadia said: “At 3.30am, the accused called 999 to say he’d been involved in a collision at a roundabout.”

After failing a breath test, Evans’ attitude to officers became “belligerent”, the depute continued.

Evans shouted at officers: “I earn more than you. You can sit in your van and smell my p***.”

Evans admitted that on January 9 at Dunfermline police station, he failed to give two specimens of breath to officers. He then resisted, obstructed or hindered two police officers and struck out with his arms and legs. He also behaved in a threatening or abusive manner by urinating in a police vehicle, using offensive language, repeatedly shouting, swearing and uttering threats.

Evans gave a repeat performance a few months later when he was found in Dunfermline town centre after a drinking session, breaching a court-imposed curfew.

He told a female officer she was lucky that he did not “stick the head” on her.
Mr Kapadia said: “He was arrested and taken to the police station. He refused to answer questions but told officers that he owned a pizza takeaway in Rosyth. He said he would lace the food with poison if any police officers purchased from there.

“He said he hoped the officers would die a slow, horrible death.”
Evans then told an officer he was going to “get some f****** Muslim to slice you.”

Evans admitted that on June 18 at Carnegie Drive, Dunfermline, he breached bail conditions by not complying with a curfew. At Carnegie Drive and then at Dunfermline police station, he behaved in a threatening or abusive manner by shouting, swearing, uttering threats of violence and religion-related offensive remarks.

Evans also admitted that on May 16, 2015, in Halbeath Road and Kingseat Road, Dunfermline, he drove at speeds of up 70mph in a 40mph limit.
Defence solicitor Stephen Morrison said that in drink his client could be “incredibly obnoxious”. Of the curfew breach, he said: “He closed his pizza shop early, went out and got drunk. He didn’t pay attention to the curfew. His behaviour after that was utterly obnoxious to say the least.

“His pizza business is making a loss but it’s limping on nonetheless.”

Sheriff Macnair told Evans: “You have a deplorable record in particular towards police officers, with numerous convictions.” He jailed Evans for eight-and-a-half months.