Judge Philip Harris-Jenkins was sentencing Luke Ashcroft, 24, at Caernarfon Crown Court
A judge branded a defendant “a one man crime wave” after a string of offences landed him in court.
Judge Philip Harris-Jenkins was sentencing Luke Ashcroft, 24, at Caernarfon Crown Court.
The court heard Ashcroft’s offences were sparked after his partner, who he’d held in a headlock and threatened, walked out on him.
David Mainstone, prosecuting, said Ashcroft said he would kidnap her “and take her far away so no one could hear her scream”, leaving her too scared to go out.
When she fled from Flint to live at her parents’ home at Old Colwyn, Ashcroft, of no fixed address, made up to 1,000 mobile phone calls trying to speak to his former partner.
Mr Mainstone said sometimes he pretended to be a police officer.
At night, the court heard, he smashed windows at the house with stones, costing £200 to repair, and broke garden ornaments.
Later when police tried to arrest him, Ashcroft drove a moped into their car deliberately, slightly injuring an officer, and causing £478 worth of damage.
Then he repeated the action on a motorcycle a few days later, driving into the front offside of a police vehicle before running off.
An officer had scraped his knees trying to hang on to him.
Mr Mainstone said Ashcroft had an extensive list of previous convictions, five of them involving violence.
Anna Pope, defending, said her client had been released from prison last April and had worked at a supermarket and voluntarily for a hospice.
She said he accepted his behavior towards his then partner had been inappropriate.
While in prison he’d taken a welding course and one in parenting, she said.
Judge Harris-Jenkins said Ashcroft had held his ex-partner in a choking hold and his behaviour had been “controlling and manipulative.”
He jailed Ashcroft for 26 months after he pleaded guilty to common assault, harassment, criminal damage, dangerous driving, aggravated vehicle taking and defrauding his former partner of £178 by accessing her on-line bank account.
Restraining Order
Judge Harris-Jenkins told him: “Over the course of two months you eventually became a one-man crime wave. The majority of these offences stemmed from the breakdown of your relationship with your ex-partner.”
The judge imposed a restraining order on Ashcroft to ban him from any contact with his former partner or her family for five years.
He was also disqualified from driving for three years and will have to pass a test before taking to the road again
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