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AN AMPUTEE who smashed his former girlfriend in the face with one of his crutches outside Morriston Hospital when she refused to give him money for drugs has been jailed.
The following week Wayne Rees tried to kick and punch a nurse and a security guard while being treated as an in-patient at the hospital.
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Helen Randall, prosecuting, told Swansea Crown Court that the spree of offending began on January 19 when two PCs on patrol in Swansea's Quadrant shopping centre became suspicious of Rees when he began "speeding up" on his crutches when he saw them.
They eventually stopped the 36-year-old and he tried to swallow a number of heroin wraps — officers had to "take him to the floor" and force him to spit out the packages.
Rees was released on bail for that offence and two days later, while being treated at Morriston, was visited by a number of acquaintances who brought him a change of clothes.
Among the group was his ex-partner, and outside the hospital he asked her for £10 for drugs; when she refused — in no uncertain terms — he hit her in the face with a crutch, the pair falling to the floor during the incident.
His victim suffered a one-and-a-half inch cut on her nose — which required six stitches — and bruising to her face in the attack.
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Some 10 days later, while being treated as a patient at Morriston Hospital, Rees dragged himself out of his bed and then tried to punch and kick the nurse who came to his aid, and to attack the security guard who intervened.
He was arrested and when searched was found to be in possession of 1.5grams of cocaine.
Rees, of Townhill Road, Townhill, had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of possession, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and a public order offence when he appeared for sentencing.
An earlier hearing was told Rees had had one leg amputated as a result of complications from injecting drugs.
Andrew Evans, for Rees, said drug addiction had "dogged most of his teenage and adult life" but that the defendant was now drug-free for the first time since he was 14 and "going into custody has probably saved his life".
Recorder David Miller told Rees he had used the crutch as a weapon to inflict a "nasty gash" on his first victim, and said that as for the public order offence on the ward, the courts had a duty to protect public servants who worked "at the coal face" from abuse and violence.
Rees was jailed for a total of two years.
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