Published date: 21 June 2016 |
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A MAN caught with a flick knife days after receiving a suspended sentence for hitting a man over the head with a bottle has been jailed.
Robert James Piper, 46, of Ebenezer Chapel Flats in Holywell, was yesterday jailed for a total of 21 months.
Piper had previously admitted possessing a larger curved bladed knife at a neighbour’s flat on March 13 but he denied having a flick knife.
A trial was due to be held in August but yesterday, via a live television link to Mold Crown Court from Altcourse Prison in Liverpool, he changed his plea.
Judge Geraint Walters jailed him for nine months but said the suspended sentence had been imposed just nine days earlier for ‘bottling’ a man.
That 12-month sentence was imposed consecutively – making 21 months in all.
The judge told him he had gone to the home of a neighbour under the influence of alcohol with two knives.
“You were behaving dangerously and erratically,” he said.
“A drunken man with a dangerous weapon is a very dangerous man indeed.”
At the age of 46 it was “make or break” time for him now, he warned.
Piper, he said, should take advantage of courses available to him in custody.
Prosecutor Emmalyne Downing told how the neighbour had been left frightened after the defendant entered his home with the knives.
He felt threatened by the defendant who was drunk.
At one stage he held a knife out towards him and told him: “If anyone attacks you, this is what you need to do.”
The victim had since been struggling to sleep because the incident scared him.
John Hedgecoe, defending, said his client had far too much to drink, and was behaving erratically and clearly in a frightening way.
He had undertaken courses while in custody and was looking forward to putting offending behind him.
When he was released, he and his wife of 28 years were planning a fresh start.
o In March the court heard how police who received a report of a bottle attack followed a trail of blood.
It led them to the home of Robert Piper, who was drunk.
Piper had hit another man on the head with a bottle but escaped immediate custody.
He received a 12-month prison sentence, suspended for a year.
The defendant was warned that if he reoffended, he would be “down the steps” (jailed).
It was described as a case of two drunken men annoying each other and the defendant Piper had reacted very badly.
It was aggravated by the defendant’s appalling record.
He had a wounding case on his record from 11 years earlier.
The court heard that a cut to the victim’s head was glued in hospital.
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