A 20-year-old who threatened folks with knives, mistreated a kitten and broken a automobile has been sentenced to 2 years in a young offenders establishment.
A member of the general public referred to as police within the early hours of August 19 final 12 months after seeing Jebrill Saad Ibrahim, of Fortescue Road, Cambridge, on the street with a big kitchen knife.
City centre CCTV operators helped officers observe him down in Bridge Street and he was approached by armed police in close by Park Street.
He tried to flee by leaping over a backyard wall – solely to land on the ft of extra officers.
Ibrahim was arrested on suspicion of getting a bladed article in a public place and a big black dealt with knife was discovered within the backyard via which he had tried to flee.
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CCTV footage confirmed Ibraham had tried to assault a person out there sq., utilizing the knife to mime throat slicing when dealing with a bunch with which he had scuffled.
Ibrahim was launched on bail however police referred to as out by employees at Tesco in Campkin Road to take care of him on June 12
They advised police he had been abusive and refused to depart the shop, regardless of being banned. Ibrahim finally left, however shouted outdoors the store and broke the entrance window.
He was arrested, charged and launched on bail, and appeared in courtroom in July.
But it was solely simply over two weeks earlier than he fell foul of the regulation once more.
This time, anxious members of the general public reported him mistreating a kitten in Arbury Court, Cambridge.
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Passers-by noticed him swinging the animal round on a makeshift string lead simply after 3.30pm on June 27.
When a lady intervened and picked up the kitten, she was chased into the Budgens retailer. She defined why she was anxious and gave the animal again to him, then tried to assist a second time after she noticed Ibrahim put the cat on the ground as she feared he was going to stamp on it.
The girl picked up the cat however was grabbed around the shoulders by Ibrahim, who pulled out a knife from his bag and threatened her.
The girl ran to the protection of a pal’s automobile, solely to be adopted by Ibrahim, who used the knife to scratch the automobile and strike it, inflicting a dent.
Officers acquired extra calls from members of the general public who had been threatened by a person with a knife, carrying a blue chequered shirt, in the identical space.
Ibrahim was noticed heading for home however returned in numerous garments with a steel pole and used this to threaten members of the general public as an alternative.
When police arrived and arrested Ibrahim, he nonetheless had the pole in his fingers.
His home was searched and officers discovered the blue chequered shirt and bag he was utilizing, together with the knife, which had been slid between a fence panel.
At courtroom, Ibrahim admitted eight offences:
– Four counts of legal injury;
– Two counts of utilizing threatening phrases or behaviour;
– Affray; and
– Possessing a knife in a public place.
The convictions put him in breach of a earlier suspended sentence and at Cambridge Crown Court on Monday (September 4) he was handed a complete of two years in a young offenders establishment.
PC Greg Langham mentioned: “I can only imagine the panic and fear felt by members of the public who called us about Ibrahim in the street threatening people with a knife or metal pole.
“We are working hard to take offenders who think they can use knives or weapons in this way off our streets.
“I hope the sentence gives all those affected by Ibrahim’s behaviour some closure, and I would like to thank them for calling 999 and raising their concerns when they did.”
