A VIOLENT son threatened to slit his sick mother's throat and then throttled her unconscious after she refused to give him one of her painkillers.

Daniel Whitelaw, 27, attacked his mother 59-year-old Christine Whitelaw in the family home in Haghill, Glasgow in August this year.

Glasgow Sheriff Court heard that Whitelaw's mother woke in the early hours feeling unwell and Whitelaw tended to her before going out.

He was 'agitated and angry,” when he returned 45 minutes later and demanded a painkiller.

When she refused Whitelaw shouted at her: “See you, I would love to slit your throat, I’m going to strangle you.”

Prosecutor Lauren Staunton said: “He seized her throat tightly with two hands causing her to be unable to breath.

“She tried to kick out and scratch his face to push him off her, then lost consciousness.”

The woman came too and saw Whitelaw in tears. She fled in her pyjamas to her daughter’s house and phoned the police.

Whitelaw pled guilty today at Glasgow Sheriff Court to assaulting his mother.

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He also admitted a separate charge of committing a breach of the peace at Main African Store in Glasgow’s Duke Street in July this year.

Whitelaw got into an argument with shopkeeper Mikael Noibi over change of a £10 note.

He refused to leave the shop and threatened Mr Noibi while holding a keyring bottle opener in his right hand.

Miss Staunton said: “Whitelaw made racial remarks and said he was a ‘f***ing monkey’ before he left the store.”

Sheriff Lindsay Wood told Whitelaw: “You are making a mess of your life.

"You can't do that to your mother or the innocent shopkeeper. 

"This behaviour is totally unacceptable and you are bringing it on yourself.”

Lawyer, Mark McCormack, defending told the court that Whitelaw had been using street valium for two years.

Sheriff Wood said: “Street valium is poisonous and a killer and there are many drug related deaths.”

The sheriff asked Whitelaw if he agreed with what he said and he replied: “Yes.”

Sentence was deferred until next month for reports and a drug court assessment.

Whitelaw, a former sprinkler company worker, was remanded in custody meantime.