Cops pulled a terrified woman to safety through a broken window in a dramatic “tug of war” with a drug-fuelled masked intruder.
She hid in her bathroom and dialled 999 after Jamie Shaw, 26, wearing a skeleton mask, smashed his way into her home in Peterhead and threatened to kill her, a court heard.
She tried to scramble through the broken kitchen window to escape his clutches. Officers who raced to the scene tried to pull her out as Shaw tried to drag her back inside, until he was pepper-sprayed.
He later assaulted police officers at hospital and the police station.His defence agent described the incident as a housebreaking that went very badly wrong.
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