A DRUG dealer who held a woman hostage and threatened to cut off her breast was today jailed for six years.
Ivy Brown told his victim to pick a rib for him to stab and then pretended to hold a gun in her mouth during a three-hour ordeal at a flat in Edinburgh.
Brown, 28, known as Dre after the rap star Dr Dre, also told Kristy Porteous he would kidnap h
er nine-year-old son and set him on fire.
He had accused Ms Porteous of owing him money for heroin and crack cocaine she was supposed to sell on his behalf.
She was taken into the bathroom at the flat in Balfour Street and told to run a bath which she would be drowned in.
"If you run, I'll kill you," Brown told her.
He then ordered the 26-year-old to cut off her waist-length hair and another woman was brought in to shave her eyebrows and head.
Ms Porteous, a recovering heroin addict, was then told to lift up her top and pick a rib for Brown to stab.
"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.
Later, Brown took her into a darkened bedroom and placed his gloved hand, in the shape of a gun, in her mouth and threatened to shoot her.
Panel-beater Brown, originally from Luton, had denied the attack on Ms Porteous on May 19 or 20 last year, 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, who said he was a rap MC, 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 was given a two-year sentence for the attack on Ms Porteous, to run alongside a six-year sentence for drug dealing heroin and cocaine.
A second man, Victor Tull, 31, also originally from Luton, was also jailed for 40 months for supplying heroin in Edinburgh between April 2 and 23 last year.
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