Insane video shows maniac chasing cop with chainsaw: I thought he would ‘chop my head off’
Shocking footage shows a man chasing a terrified Scottish police officer down a street while threatening him with a chainsaw.
Albanian national Liridon Kastrati, 32, pulled a chainsaw from his car after crashing into Police Constable Gary Cowan’s squad car in Paisley, just west of Glasgow.
CCTV captured Kastrati running after the officer in the middle of the road, shouting threats and demanding the gruesome scene be shared by the media. Constable Cowan described the ordeal as “terrifying,” fearing Kastrati would “saw my arms off, chop my head off.”
“I could hear the chainsaw revving. I thought if I do not create distance, he is going to kill me,” Cowan testified about the incident in May 2024.
The attacker eventually set the chainsaw down and was subdued with pepper spray before being arrested. Kastrati was convicted of attempting to murder the officer and on Tuesday was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Judge William Gallacher, speaking at Glasgow High Court, said: “If PC Cowan had not been able to run fast enough or if he had stumbled while fleeing, this could have been a scene of carnage. He feared you would chop off his limbs and kill him.”
The judge added: “In my experience, I have never encountered a chainsaw being used as a weapon in Scotland. Many might think this belongs in a horror film.”
Kastrati reacted angrily to his sentence, banging on the dock and shouting at the judge in Albanian, before switching to English to call the judge “a f–king terrorist” and claiming, “Your country is a f–king terrorist,” without offering further explanation.
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