A HADDINGTON man has appeared in court to admit charges of using grossly offensive language towards several members of staff at a hospital in the town.

Oliver McShane, 28, made phone calls to a clinical psychologist at Roodlands Hospital – which has now been replaced by East Lothian Community Hospital on the same site – where he made “comments about killing [the doctor] and sexually molesting her body”.

Edinburgh Sheriff Court was told that McShane, who is also known as John Brave, made further abusive remarks by calling another member of staff “a d*** and c***”.

The court also heard that McShane made comments where he “made reference to mass murder” and he threatened to self-harm.

A second call to the medical facility on November 3, 2019, saw McShane inform staff he “was going to come up and stab every woman” in the genitals.

The court heard that he threatened to “forcibly insert a knife” into their genitals and “cause injury” to several female members of staff.

Further calls on the same day saw McShane, formerly of the town’s Lennox Road, label a call handler “a disabled freak” and state he had been “pushed towards a killing spree”.

McShane, now living on Paterson Place, Edinburgh, also pleaded guilty to a similar offence that occurred the following year between November 25 and 27.

On that occasion, McShane sent text messages to his social worker where he made abusive comments, including threatening “to stab the f*** out of someone”.

He also described the worker as “a lying p****” and “a lying c***” before stating the man “deserved to be blown up and deserved to be raped”.

The social worker called the police and McShane was arrested and charged.

Lawyer Cameron Tait told the court that his client was facing “a serious matter” but that “the behaviour has ceased” since his arrest.

Sheriff Robert Fife told McShane “all options are available to the court” and deferred sentence for reports to next month.

McShane pleaded guilty to sending communications that were grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character in that they contained insults, threats, threats of sexual violence and abusive language at the hospital between October 19 and November 20, 2019.

He also admitted to sending communications that were abusive and contained repeated threats of physical and sexual violence to a social worker between November 25 and 27 last year.