A grieving grandson bit his mum's head, whacked her partner with a metal pole and smashed a car windscreen with an ornamental hedgehog during a post-funeral rampage.
Kaine Baxter, 25, grabbed his mother's windpipe during the attack which came in the wake of the funeral for his grandfather earlier in the day. Fiscal depute Elizabeth Hodgson told Perth Sheriff Court that Baxter and his mother Tammie Thomson had gone to the family funeral on July 21 last year.
Ms Thomson's partner John McGuire had not gone to the funeral because of previous ill-feeling between him and the accused, said the fiscal depute. She added: "At about 9.20pm that day, Mr McGuire went to the home of Ms Thomson.
