A man was seen carrying a naked toddler along a Dundee street while off his face on drugs.

The sheriff court heard Gordon Donald, 36, of South Road, was stopped by police shortly after the initial sighting, only the child was now wearing an adult-sized T-shirt.

The court heard he was so heavily under the influence he could not tell police the child’s name.

Fiscal depute Kirsty Urquhart told the court police were called after Donald was seen carrying a naked toddler on Mains Road in October.

The fiscal said: “Police found the accused on Provost Road. The child was wearing an adult-sized T-shirt and the accused was trying to cross the road.

“Police struggled to get details from him, including the name of the child or date of birth. The accused’s pupils were dilated and he was slurring his words. He said he had taken Valium.

“He was taken to headquarters. Police found the child’s shoes and trousers at the junction of Dens Road and Provost Road, and their top was found further along Dens Road.”

The court heard Donald had admitted to a witness that he had taken cannabis shortly before the incident, and he was also on methadone.

Sheriff Alastair Brown said: “It is quite clear you put the child in serious risk by the amount of drugs you had taken.

“You got yourself paralytic. You were banging off the walls.”

Donald admitted that on October 10 at Provost Road he wilfully exposed a child in a manner likely to cause the child unnecessary suffering or ill-health by consuming drugs rendering him incapable of caring for the child.

Donald was placed on a community payback order, consisting of one year’s supervision.