(BBC) A mentally unwell man sparked fears of an imminent terrorist attack in a city centre, a court has heard.
Armed police swooped on Sunderland city centre last October after Mahmoud Mabad, 38, shouted he was a terrorist and began filming people on his phone and acting aggressively, Newcastle Crown Court heard.
Days later, and while still experiencing a schizophrenic episode exacerbated by alcohol and cannabis use, he shouted abuse and threats at a police call handler and launched a tirade of racist abuse at a bus driver, prosecutors said.
Mabad, who has spent 11 months in HMP Durham awaiting sentencing, after admitting seven offences, was made the subject of a two-year community order.
