Spared jail!!!!! You would have thought something so dangerous and serious would have involved a prison sentence? Seems not....
Published date: 02 September 2016 |
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A MAN from Deeside who brandished an axe outside his home and threatened to cut others up has been spared immediate imprisonment.
Robin Craig Davies, 53, of Ash Lane in Mancot, had admitted a public order offence and possessing the axe at the magistrates court.
At Mold Crown Court yesterday he received a four month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months and was ordered to carry out 80 hours unpaid work.
“You are a big man,” Judge Niclas Parry told him, adding he was a frightening man who in the past had been a very violent man.
Previous convictions came back to haunt him when he became involved “in nonsense like this,” said the judge.
“You frightened these people, you went home and rather than lock the door you came back out waving an axe. You threatened to cut people up.”
Judge Parry said there was always a danger when drunk that he would cause serious harm that he not intended.
References showed another side to him, he was a highly regarded worker and the judge said he took the view that the victims “were not shrinking violets”.
A prison sentence was always imposed on people who waved weapons around but his would be suspended.
Barrister Hannah Horton, prosecuting, said on May 11 at 9pm there had been an argument in the street and Davies went into the house, returned and walked towards the other men with an axe. He was shouting and appeared drunk.
Mark Connor, defending, said his client’s convictions for violence were old. He had pleaded guilty and appreciated that what he had done was wrong.
At the magistrates’ court it was claimed Davies had been hounded by a gang of youngsters.
Flintshire Magistrates Court at Mold was told Davies had been goaded by a group of youngsters as he walking home drunk.
Items were then thrown at his home but he came out brandishing the axe and the police were called.
Simon Simmons, defending, said the group was being aggressive.
They initially started kicking off in a shop and Davies was scared as he walked home.
The group followed him and was hurling abuse at him, he said.
An independent witness had called the police because she feared for Davies’ safety.
The big mistake Davies had made was that he should have called the police himself but he did not. He came out of the house with an axe which he had to chop wood, Mr Simmons explained.
A rock or something had been thrown at his front door and another went through his window upstairs.
“He grabbed the axe and threatened the youngsters to try and get them away,” Mr Simmons said.
The evidence of an independent witness showed that he had been hounded.
His client had kept notes of incidents he had been subjected to at his home including vandalism and anti-social behaviour.
Some in the group seemed to find it quite funny, according to the witness, and did not seem frightened at all.
They split up but later returned to the house in a larger group as police arrived and they waited there until Davies had been arrested.
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