TWO men who launched a washing machine out of a third-floor window after police broke up their house party in Haddington have avoided a jail sentence.

Ajdin Husic, 25, and Nathan Hill, 30, were part of a group that threw a TV, radiators and a vacuum cleaner at the officers while Hill also shouted homophobic insults at them from the top-floor flat at the town’s High Street.

Hill was later arrested after police found him hiding in a nearby garden after he had jumped from a second-floor window in a bid to escape.

Husic and Hill appeared for sentencing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court today (Friday) after previously pleading guilty to culpably and recklessly throwing items out of the flat window and endangering police officers.

Hill also admitted making homophobic remarks to officers, while a third accused, Sophie Dudgeon, 18, pleaded guilty to making threats towards officers, including threatening to kill their children.

Sheriff Kenneth Campbell QC said that “shocking is an accurate description” of the antics against the police that night but stopped short of imposing custodial sentences.

Instead, Husic, who appeared via video link from HMP Edinburgh, was handed 18 months of supervision and told to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work.

Hill, of Riverside Drive, Haddington, had his sentence deferred for a further three months for him to complete an existing community payback order consisting of unpaid work and supervision.

Previously, the court heard that police were called out to deal with the “noisy party” at Husic’s home at the town’s High Street at about 11pm on June 19 last year.

Husic denied the officers entry to the flat and party-goers soon began throwing items out of the flat’s third-floor window onto the street below.

The court was told that among the items thrown were a washing machine, a vacuum cleaner, a TV, two radiators as well as bottles and crockery.

A police vehicle suffered damaged to its bonnet and windscreen during the incident, while officers were forced to close off roads and paths surrounding the area.

Hill and Husic were both found hiding in a nearby garden about two hours after the trouble started, after Hill was said to have injured his ankle during the escape bid.

Today, Husic’s lawyer Ross Gardner said that there had been “a state of excitement” in the flat following the police arrival but the “party mood turned to a siege mentality” very quickly.

Mr Gardner added that Husic became angry after a friend had thrown his TV out of the flat window and his conduct that night had been “ill-advised and criminal”.

Murray Robertson, for Hill, said that his client had recently became a father and was in a stable relationship.

The lawyer admitted that Hill’s behaviour that night was "shocking” but added he now had “a degree of insight” into his offending and asked the sheriff not to impose a custodial sentence.

Dudgeon, of Ormiston Road, Tranent, previously had her sentence deferred for six months after she admitted making threats towards officers, including threatening to kill their children, following her arrest.