A DRUG addict who terrorised a pharmacist in a bid to get a heroin-substitute is behind bars facing a possible jail term.
Burnley Magistrates’ Court heard how Dean Coulson, 21, who had drunk five litres of cider, demanded the methadone and then went into a part of the shop where the public was not allowed.
The defendant told the pharmacist that if she didn’t give him methadone he might kill somebody – and it might be her.
He then demanded she unlock the cabinet and give him a drug. She had already pressed the panic button.
Coulson, of Devonshire Road, Burnley, admitted theft, using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour and being drunk and disorderly.
He was remanded in custody until Septem-ber 23 for reports.
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