This piece of garbage should have been jailed
.A man who made threats about police being shot and kicked an officer has been spared jail. Andrew Duncan admitted to committing a string of offenses in Llandudno.
But a judge said as the 56-year-old had already served time in prison he was suspending his sentence, Mold Crown Court heard. Prosecutor Frances Willmott said Duncan went to his former partner's home in Canol Creuddyn in Llandudno last December. But it was in breach of a condition, from a previous incident, prohibiting him from being there.
Police found him self-harming in a corridor. He was bleeding from a cut to his head.
The court heard he had been drinking and was aggressive and made threats about having police officers shot. He kicked one officer three times on her shin and thigh and had to be restrained.
In a statement, she said the attack caused her pain and bruising. She had joined the police to protect people and did not expect to be assaulted.
But, while he was on bail for assaulting that emergency worker, police stopped Duncan's car in Old Colwyn the following month - in January this year. The officers found a small, orange kitchen knife in a binbag on a seat.
Earlier the court also heard he Duncan and his then partner had been at the RAOB Club on Madoc Street, Llandudno in July last year. They argued and left.
Two men inside heard a bang and came outside to find Duncan crouched over his partner. He pulled a knife from his pocket and police were called.
The knife was placed on a window sill. Duncan told police it was his "father's potato knife" and if he was ever scared he would use it.
The following month in August last year there was another altercation at his own home. He ended up throwing a mobile phone at his then-partner as she left.
Richard Edwards, defending, accepted the assault on the emergency worker - the police officer - had been unpleasant.
He said the defendant himself had been abused and kicked by his former partner outside the RAOB Club. As regards the kitchen knife in the car he said he uses it to prise the cap off his tow bar.
Mr Edwards said his client had abused heroin but has now stopped and had even got a job with a Manchester company helping others to overcome their addictions.
However, his father had become seriously ill and he had had to give that up and return to his offending ways.
The judge His Honour Niclas Parry jailed Duncan, of Ty Gwyn Road, Llandudno, for 12 months for having the knife outside the RAOB Club, for eight months for assaulting the emergency worker, and for two more months for having the second knife in the car, making a total of 22 months but he suspended the terms for 18 months as he had already served almost the equivalent of that sentence on remand.
He made a five-year restraining order prohibiting Duncan from contacting his former partner. He also ordered Duncan to do 20 days of rehabilitation activity and 35 sessions of a thinking skills program.
He also ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the two knives.
From...https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/llandudno-man-avoids-jail-after-27794978
He should have been jailed, no question
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