A man died in police custody after "smashing up" a flat, a fatal accident inquiry has heard.

Anthony Storrie died on Sunday, June 30, 2013, after being "intoxicated" at his home in Paisley, Renfrewshire.

He had been arrested at his home on Townhead Terrace the night before for alleged "aggressive behaviour".

Mr Storrie's friend and flatmate at the time, Andrew McLaughlin, said he phoned police to come to their home as his friend was "smashing up" their flat.

He told a fatal accident inquiry at Paisley Sheriff Court on Tuesday that he, Storrie and friend Nicholas Donaldson took "n-bombs" - a hallucinogenic similar to LSD - on the Friday.

Mr McLaughlin said he went to bed at about 2am on the Saturday morning and got up around 11am or noon.

He told the inquiry: "I made something to eat for me and Tony a bit later, about 3pm or 4pm on the Saturday. I said 'there's your food there' and just put the food for him on to the table.

"He said 'eh, yeah', he was kind of half asleep. A few hours later he came into the living room. He looked intoxicated. He kind of fell in to it."

Mr McLaughlin added: "He was making noises, not like sentences or anything, screeching and saying 'adoosh' and things like that, he was shouting them. I'd seen things similar to this before. He jumped on top of the glass table.

"There were glasses, ashtrays, things like that on it, he kicked them off. He just kind of started falling down and I was saying 'Tony, sit down'.

"He fell off the coffee table on to the couch, he toppled over with it. He stood up straight away, he kept on saying 'sorry' and apologising."

Mr McLaughlin said there was smashed glass on the floor and Mr Storrie knocked over the TV and knocked other items off their fireplace.

He said he decided to put Mr Storrie in his room for his safety and phoned 999 to see what he should do to keep his friend safe.

Mr McLaughlin said: "I did become quite annoyed. I moved him in to his bedroom. I was kind of panicked, I didn't know what to do with the situation.

"I put him in there and I shut the door but as soon as I left I could hear him getting back up. There were sounds like crashing noises and things getting knocked over.

"At first I spoke to an operator and asked if I needed an ambulance or the police and they said you need to decide."

Mr McLaughlin added: "I thought he really need to be looked after for the night, restrained, and then he'd sober up and he'd be fine.

"It was more to keep an eye on him - to keep him restrained for the night because I couldn't do it myself.

"They'd be more experienced in dealing with situations like that than myself."

The inquiry heard Mr McLaughlin phoned police three times to get them to see to his friend.

In one of the calls, which was played during the inquiry, he said: "My friend's quite intoxicated with some stuff. He's a danger to himself and a danger to people round about, everything's wrecked because of him.

"Do you know how to get someone sectioned for the night?

"He doesn't have a clue what's going on and anything round about him he's flailing about and hitting everything."

The inquiry, before sheriff principal Duncan Murray, continues at Paisley Sheriff Court.