Guiseppe Calvert, 22, admitted an affray at an earlier court hearing and today received a nine-month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months
A man with convictions for arson who went on to buy petrol and cigarette papers and said he was going to kill someone, dodged jail today.
Guiseppe Calvert, 22, who was drunk at the time of his latest offence, admitted an affray at an earlier court hearing and today received a nine-month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months.
He was ordered to live at a hostel as directed by the probation service and was placed on rehabilitation.
Judge Niclas Parry sitting at Mold Crown Court told him that he was prepared to give him a chance.
He took into account that Calvert had served the equivalent of a six-month prison sentence while on remand.
The judge had previously commended a sales assistant at a garage for raising the alarm when Calvert purchased petrol from the premises and left making a threat to kill.
Thanks to her call police had been able to trace Calvert and arrest him.
Calvert was originally charged with possessing a bottle of petrol as an offensive weapon and making a threat to kill.
But those charges were dropped when he admitted an alternative charge of affray.
Calvert, of Highmere Drive in Connah’s Quay, was told it as a worrying case involving a man with a previous conviction for arson and who had previously been warned for arson.
The judge at the earlier hearing publicly commend the public spirited actions of Dani Smallman who had been alert enough to raise the alarm when she saw a drunken young man out of control of his senses, potentially a danger to himself and to others.
“Due to her picking up that phone, the police came and no harm was done,” said Judge Parry.
He told Calvert today: “This is a serious matter and the starting point is a fairly significant sentence of custody. But you have issues, you have vulnerabilities.”
The court heard how at 3.40am on September 10 Miss Smallman was working at Quay Services in Connah’s Quay, when the defendant, a regular customer, purchased £2.20 worth of petrol in a container.
He was mumbling to himself, mentioned a man’s name and said he was going to kill him.
The defendant then returned to the garage for some cigarette papers and Ms Smallman said to him: “Please don’t do anything stupid.”
She raised the alarm as he walked towards Connah’s Quay because she feared he might harm the man he had named.
Officers found him walking in the middle of the road with the container of fuel in his hand.
At one stage he got a lighter out of his pocket and held the fuel up, after taking the lid off, and said “I might as well do it to myself.”
He claimed that the petrol was to be used in self-defence.
Officers calmed him down.
Police traced the man he had named and it turned out that they were friends and that there were no issues between them.
When arrested and interviewed, Calvert said that he had been drinking and recalled little of what had happened.
He said he had a call from a friend who said that he had run out of fuel and tried to help by purchasing some petrol for him.http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/connahs-quay-man-dodges-jail-12322557
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