A PRESTONPANS man has been remanded in custody after he admitted stripping naked in a police cell and exposing his behind to officers.

Stephen Dixon also covered himself in urine after being taken to Edinburgh’s St Leonard’s Police Station after he had been arrested.

Dixon had been apprehended after he jumped out of a van on Prestonpans’ Preston Road and chased after a man who was out with his family.

The 31-year-old shouted at the man he was “a dead man” but the victim managed to flee before the situation escalated on May 28.

Dixon then attempted to gain access to the home of a woman in Musselburgh, which ended with the woman injuring her elbow.

Police officers eventually tracked Dixon down later that day but he reacted violently and began to struggle with them.

Edinburgh Sheriff Court was told that officers were forced to use PAVA ‘incapacitant spray’ in a bid to subdue him and he was eventually restrained and taken into custody.

The court heard that Dixon shouted obscenities at officers by calling one a “Polish f****t” and another a “Jewish f****t”.

Dixon, formerly of the town’s Rollo Court, then spat on the leg of an officer.

And after being placed in a custody cell, Dixon stripped off, covered himself and an anti-ligature device in urine, and ran around the room naked.

He then exposed his buttocks in the direction of a security camera for several hours.

Solicitor Nigel Beaumont said that his client had an “addictive personality” and “can’t get by without alcohol or drugs or both”.

Mr Beaumont said that Dixon had spent time in prison four years ago and, following a rehabilitation programme, had relapsed and had been using alcohol and heroin.

The lawyer added that Dixon was “very ashamed and embarrassed” about his “disgraceful and appalling behaviour” but could recollect very little of the events.

Dixon pleaded guilty to making threats to a man and chasing him at Preston Road, Prestonpans, on May 28 when he appeared via a video link at Edinburgh Sheriff Court last week.

He also admitted a charge of assaulting a woman by striking her with a door at an address at North High Street, Musselburgh, on May 30 last year.

Dixon pleaded guilty to a third offence of shouting, swearing, spitting within a police vehicle, headbutting a door, uttering offensive remarks, urinating on the floor of a police cell, covering himself in urine, repeatedly punching and kicking the cell, and spitting on a constable on the same date.

Sheriff Douglas Keir told the offender that he was being remanded in custody for social work reports to be prepared ahead of being sentenced next month.