A Polish man, who was desperate to return home, trashed a family’s car while they were on a day out in Wrexham so he would be arrested and deported.
The car was parked in a disabled space while the family were enjoying a visit to a fun fair on Tuesday, but they returned to find it had had its windows smashed and the body work dented by defendant Maciey Blandzinski.
At one stage he was standing on the bonnet kicking the windscreen.
The attack was witnessed by the owner who was sitting in a nearby cafe and by others.
The defendant, aged 23, of no fixed abode, but formerly of Ruthin, admitted criminal damage to the car.
He was jailed for four weeks – but at the time was the subject of a four month suspended prison for possessing a knife and that was activated in full – making five months in all.
Blandzinski received concurrent seven day sentences for stealing vodka from Iceland and B and M Bargains on the same day.
Prosecutor Jim Neary told Flintshire magistrates’ court at Mold the victim was an MS sufferer who parked her car in a disabled bay while she and her partner went to a fair with the children.
After about half an hour she felt unwell and went to the nearby Waterworld cafe to have a rest, but she realised the car was being damaged and went outside.
She found the defendant standing on the bonnet kicking the windscreen, which smashed.
When asked what he was doing, he said he was Polish and wanted to be deported. He kept repeating it was fine. Police arrived and arrested him.
The defendant said he did not know the owner of the car and it had simply been the first one that he saw.
When it was explained to him it was parked in a disabled bay and the keeper was registered disabled, he apologised and said he was sorry.
He had no work since he had lost his job at The Old Swan.
“There is nothing for me here,” he said, and warned if he was released then he would go out and smash a shop window or something to continue to try and be deported.
Phillip Lloyd Jones, defending, said Blandzinski was a young man in a desperate situation and committed the damage because of his plight.
It was abundantly clear that there would be a considerable amount of cost to repair the vehicle.
He had been living on the streets, had no income and could not claim benefits and had lost his identification papers.
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