A CLYDEBANK man is beginning a 27-month jail term after he tried to hack his way into his father’s house with a meat cleaver following a long-running feud.

Masked Mark Lowrie – who tried to torch himself while on remand – showed up at the Montrose Street house on a motorbike, before standing in the garden with a knife and the cleaver, screaming to his dad: “You’re going to die” and “I’m going to kill you.”

The 38-year-old flipped when he learned that his father’s affair with his son’s ex-girlfriend resulted in the birth of a daughter – a daughter he believed to be his.

And the incident on November 16 last year spiralled into a chaotic half-hour stand-off involving an armed response police unit.

Lowrie smashed every window in the front of the house, before breaking in amid a rampage that left a water bed so badly damaged Scottish Power had to make the property safe – all just yards from the police station.

At Dumbarton Sheriff Court last Tuesday, Lowrie was sentenced after pleading guilty to the indictment at an earlier hearing.

The court was previously told how Lowrie was one of nine children his father had.

And depute fiscal Sarah Healing said there had been a “simmering feud” over the past 13 to 14 years as a result of the complainer having an affair with an ex partner of the accused, which resulted in the birth of a child.

She also explained the background to the case, saying: “At around 8pm, the complainer was alone within his bedroom, looking on to Montrose Street. He heard a motorbike revving loudly outside but couldn’t see the bike. What he did see was a male wearing black clothing and black helmet with the visor down, standing in the front garden.”

“He started shouting aggressively: ‘You’re going to die’ and ‘I’m going to kill you.’ He recognised it belonged to his son.”

Lowrie continued to shout and swear outside and repeatedly struck the glass panels of the front door with an item he was holding, forcing the father to flee to the rear bedroom, barricading the door, and calling 999.

Neighbours saw Lowrie with a brick in his hand, which he threw at the front window, smashing it.

He picked up more bricks from the front garden while shouting “Who’s the gangster now?”

Lowrie was then seen to have a large knife in his right hand and a meat cleaver in the other.

More than a dozen police arrived and cordoned off the area, repeatedly trying to get Lowrie to stand down.

But Lowrie continued shouting and swearing, saying he was going to murder his father and “I will f****** kill you, you paedo.

He repeatedly kicked the front door and threw more bricks.

Ms Healing continued: “When he had smashed every window at the front, he then began to hack at the front door with the meat cleaver before sitting down in the garden, seemingly out of breath.

“Police took the opportunity to attempt to speak to the accused and try to calm him down and surrender the meat cleaver, but he refused. Instead, he continued to shout, swear, throw bricks and generally cause a large scale disturbance.”

Lowrie ran down the garden towards police, brandishing the meat cleaver and forcing them to retreat and leading them to call for a firearms unit.

He again went back to the home threatening to kill his dad and a dog in the home, then discovered the front door was unlocked and rushed it.

Lowrie entered the house and six police officers followed him inside and three went upstairs and got the dad out quietly, through the back.

He was now in the front bedroom and jumped over a water bed, still with the meat cleaver and knife in his hands, hacking and slashing at items in the room.

Lowrie finally removed his crash helmet and used it to smash the front window before throwing it on to the street. Police still couldn’t get him to stand down.

During the chaos Lowrie then stabbed the water bed, flooding the floor and ultimately down through the light fixture into the room below.

He threw clothing and flags belonging to his dad on to the street, all as police continued to try to calm him.

Lowrie then placed the meat cleaver against his own neck and knife to his temple, shouting that he was not going back to jail before he eventually surrendered the weapons.

Finally, he was persuaded to surrender his weapons and placed the meat cleaver on the now burst water bed.

The entire incident took just 30 minutes and then Lowrie was in custody at the nearby police office, where he continued to make threats to his dad.

The court was also told at the time that Lowrie was not fit to be charged.

But when the case returned to court on Tuesday, March 14 Lowrie’s defence solicitor Douglas McAllister said his client was “unwell” at the time of the offence and that his metal health had “deteriorated further” after he was remanded.

It was also revealed in court that while on remand Lowrie tried to set himself on fire.

Mr McAllister continued: “He set light to himself in prison because he was so unwell.

“He’s now taking medication and anti-psychotic medication but there are still some concerns over his mental health.

“His actions were triggered by him receiving definite confirmation that his father (the complainer) was, in fact, the father of a child he always considered to be his daughter.

“The relationship lasted approximately 16 years and they had what he thought was their first child.

“They separated three or four years after the birth and she (the mother) eventually moved to Wales.“He is now 38 and he tells me there have always been rumours that the father had an affair with her at the same time as him.“This was confirmed in November 2016. When this revelation was confirmed to him he took it upon himself to confront his father.”

Mr McAllister also revealed that Lowrie’s mental health had been flagged up, saying: “He told his GP he was having these thoughts in relation to his father and the GP contacted police. His mental state was very poor.”

Ms Healing told the hearing last week how the victim was “terrified” of the accused and wanted “no further contact”.

Sheriff Maxwell Hendry said: “There is no alternative other than imprisonment.”

Lowrie was sentenced to a total of 27 months in prison, backdated to when he was first taken into custody on November 17 last year.

Lowrie will also be under supervision for 12 months after his release, and he must comply with a non-harassment order, meaning he cannot approach or contact his victim for an indefinite period and Lowrie is also ordered not to enter Montrose Street.