A man asked to be tasered during a four-hour stand-off with police from the top of his neighbour's shed.
Glyn Fowler was swigging from a bottle of rum and took what appeared to be Valium tablets during the incident in Fenham, Newcastle, one evening earlier this month. A court was told that the 21-year-old stayed in situ for four hours until he eventually agreed to come down and was arrested.
However, Fowler's behaviour escalated further and he made threats to bite officers if they continued to restrain him. Prosecutors said the lout even told one constable that he hoped his daughter would get raped.
