A PSYCHOTIC drug addict who fooled police during a three hour stand-off has been jailed for 27 months.

Crack-smoking Carl Garwood, who had a daily alcohol intake of 15 cans of lager mixed with a bottle of spirits, duped police into believing he had a shotgun after a violent row with his girlfriend.

Garwood, of High Level Drive, Sydenham, climbed onto scaffolding outside a Camden flat on April 6 last year, hurled metal poles at officers and threatened to shoot them and then himself.

When police finally arrested the 34-year-old, they discovered he was unarmed.

Philip Sutton, defending, told Inner London Crown Court on August 3 how Garwood suffered from an incurable anti-social personality disorder and heard ongoing imaginary noises in his head.

He said Garwood's condition was not helped by his drinking and crack cocaine habit, for which he used heroin to “come down” from.

The court heard police were called a month after the stand-off when Garwood was hammering on a door in St George's Mews, Camden, armed with a kitchen knife.

Judge Quentin Campbell, describing Garwood as “a very substantial risk to society”, sentenced him to nine months in jail for the possession of an offensive weapon and a consecutive 18 months for affray.

He said: “Whatever order the court makes, it is not going to be 100 per cent successful. People suffering from psychopathic disorders fall between two stools, hospitals and prison.”