A DRUG dealer who carried out a terrifying attack on a woman was detained in a high-security psychiatric hospital today.
Ivy Brown was caught after police launched an inquiry dubbed Operation Isolate.
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Young man trapped in machinery at Lothians sawmillOne woman was attacked and abducted and described how she had to pick a rib for Brown to stab.
Kristy Porteous was supplied with heroin and crack cocaine to sell for Brown, who was known as Dre after the rap star Dr Dre.
Ms Porteous, 26, told the High Court in Edinburgh that she had gone to a flat in the city's Balfour Street, off Leith Walk, when Dre appeared.
She was accused of owing him money and was taken to a bathroom in the flat. She said: "Dre said to me: 'If you run, I'll kill you'".
She was told to run a bath and was threatened that she would be drowned. She was ordered to cut off her hair and another woman was brought in to shave her eyebrows.
The recovering drug addict said she was told to lift up her top and pick the rib she wanted to be stabbed in with a knife.
"He dragged me over to the sink saying that in China and places like that thieves get their fingers cut off. He placed the blade against my finger and made a sawing motion, but not enough to cut my finger," she said.
"Then he threatened to cut my breast off. I was terrified," she told the court.
Two men were sent to get keys so he could recover money and drugs from her flat. But police had already been there and discovered items including a drug-tainted sets of scales.
Brown, 28, resumed the attack on Ms Porteous. She was taken into a darkened bedroom and the accused put his gloved hand, in the shape of a gun, in her mouth and threatened to shoot her.
The petrified victim pleaded with him. She said she was also told she would never see her son again. The assault ended after an agreement was struck to pay money back.
Dawn Chalmers, 42, told the court that she was asked to shave off the victim's eyebrows. She said she agreed to do it as she scared because she had "a sharp object at my back".
She was asked by advocate depute Gillian Wade how she felt about Dre and replied: "An evil, wicked man."
Panel-beater Brown, originally from Luton, had denied the attack on Ms Porteous, but was found guilty by a majority.
He claimed never to have seen a succession of witnesses in the case called by the Crown, but several referred to his distinctive gold teeth.
He was also found guilty of two breach of the peace charges. During one incident at a flat in North Fort Street, in Edinburgh, he demanded a man run on the spot and also that a cooker be turned on and threatened to scald someone's face.
During a second incident at a flat in Inchkeith Court he brandished a pair of scissors.
Brown was also convicted of being concerned in the supply of the class A drugs heroin and cocaine between March 1 and May 31 last year at addresses in Edinburgh.
He told the court in had moved to Scotland to live with a woman in Aberdeen before occupying a flat in Montgomery Street, in Edinburgh, and then relocating to another at Western Harbour Midway.
Brown, who also said he was a rap MC, had denied all the offences against him.
The court heard that he was originally detained in Edinburgh's Saughton prison, but was later transferred to the State Hospital at Carstairs.
The judge, Lord Brodie, told the first offender that he required reports before dealing with him and said he would be committed to Carstairs while they are prepared.
