A career criminal who went on a naked rampage through a toy shop and abducted a boy before battering the six-year-old's grandmother with a cricket bat has been jailed for three years.

Przemyslaw Kaluzny, 41, will now be sent back to Poland to serve his sentence after immigration papers were served on him

Sheriff Lorna Drummond QC said: "It must have been a horrifying and terrifying experience for everyone in Toys R Us that day but particularly for that six-year-old boy and his grandmother."

Dundee Sheriff Court heard how Kaluzny took the class A drug ecstasy, which he found in a Kinder Egg on the street, before running amok in the city's Toys R Us store.

He first stripped off as he walked through the shop before picking up a terrified six-year-old boy who was on an Easter day out with his father and grandmother.

CCTV footage showed Kaluzny strolling through the aisles naked before grabbing the boy and dragging him along the ground as he was chased by shoppers and staff.

A worker repeatedly rammed Kaluzny with a trolley before the boy's grandmother, who cannot be named to protect the boy's identity, hit him with her handbag. He then attacked her with a cricket bat, striking her on the head.

Staff and shoppers dived on top of Kaluzny as he tried to struggle his way free.

Fiscal depute Eilidh Robertson told the court that two hours before the incident Kaluzny had gone to a neighbour's home where he "did not appear himself" and took ecstasy before leaving in a car for the shop.

She said: "A member of staff, Ryan Chaplin, saw him exit a car and enter the store. The accused was unsteady on his feet and holding a cricket bat.

"He began to remove the outer layers of his clothing and was still holding the cricket bat."

She added: "About this time, a family comprising a man, his mother, aged 67, and his two sons aged eight and six arrived at the shop having been on a family Easter day out.

"The father and one son walked down one aisle looking at toys, while the grandmother and the six-year-old walked along a nearby aisle.

"Almost immediately they saw the accused running along the aisle towards her and the six-year-old.

"Without saying a word and appearing calm, the accused approached them, and whilst still running he forcefully grabbed the boy with one arm, lifting him from the ground and proceeding to run off with him in his arm towards the front entrance door.

"He [the boy] immediately started crying hysterically and appeared petrified. The accused then went to leave the locus.

"The father and grandmother ran after the accused, along with staff and members of the public who came to their assistance.

"Numerous persons shouted at the accused to put the boy down but he continued to hold him whilst swinging the cricket bat at everyone who attempted to go near him, including Mr Chaplin, who repeatedly struck him with a shopping trolley in an attempt to get the accused to release his grip.

"The grandmother approached the accused, who was still carrying the boy and the cricket bat and attempted to hit him with her handbag.

"The accused then forcefully struck her on the left side of her face with the cricket bat causing her to stumble back, however she did not fall.

"At this time the father managed to pull his son free from the accused and other members of the public and staff managed to restrain the accused."

Kaluzny pleaded guilty on indictment to possessing an offensive weapon, behaving in a threatening and abusive manner, public indecency, abduction, assault, assault to injury and vandalism.

The court heard Kaluzny was previously a member of a Polish criminal gang who stole cars to order before moving to Scotland a year before the attack.

He has previously served a series of jail terms in Poland for violent offences, including a four-and-a-half year sentence for robbery and ten months for hostage taking.

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