A homeless man stamped on a former pal’s head and neck after his canine escaped from the person’s home whereas he was pet sitting.
Paul Guy, 43, pushed the person over on the street and attacked him, inflicting him to lose consciousness, on May 8. When his sufferer got here spherical, Guy chased him down the road.
Teesside Crown Court has heard that Guy, who was homeless, then despatched messages accusing his sufferer of injuring his canine, who is known as Angel: ” We will know in the event you’ve harm Angel,” he wrote. “Blaze (Guy’s different canine) can discuss to me, and he is aware of you harm Angel.”
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Guy had requested his pal to take care of his canine for an hour – however he did not return for 4 hours. In this time, the canine managed to get out of the person’s home when he went exterior to have a cigarette.
After he had been arrested and bailed by police, on the situation that he did not contact his sufferer, Guy messaged a member of the person’s household: “He must drop it, I’m sick of signing in on the police station. I’ve had my ferrets taken off me due to him.”
He then went on to make additional threats concerning the expenses he confronted. On Monday, prosecutor Paul Abrahams stated that police discovered a black and silver lock knife after they arrested Guy, which was connected to a bunch of his keys.
Guy’s sufferer was handled in hospital following the assault. He suffered bruising to his head and a laceration to the again of his head was stapled. In a press release, the person stated that he’ll “by no means assist anybody once more” and that he now not feels protected when leaving his home:
“I’ve been in Darlington for 27 years and now I’m contemplating shifting. I’m scared for my security.”
Guy, now of Dickinson Street in Darlington, pleaded responsible to inflicting precise bodily hurt, intimidating a witness and to the possession of a bladed article in a public place.
Kelleigh Lodge, defending, informed the courtroom that Guy was dwelling in his van and in a tent on the time, and that he stated he stored the knife, “to place up his tent and to chop ropes.” Ms Lodge says Guy had been evicted from his home, despite the fact that he had been paying his hire, as a result of the home had been repossessed.
She stated that her shopper then started “to battle with drink and medicines.”
Guy listened through video hyperlink from Durham jail as Judge Howard Crowson informed him: “You have been utilizing alcohol and medicines to deal with issues in your life. This triggered you to behave irrationally.
“The {photograph} exhibits what seems like an imprint of a foot, on the sufferer’s temple. You despatched a threatening message.”
Guy was jailed for 51 weeks.
