A man who made violent threats to constables in a West Cumbrian police station before assaulting and injuring one has been handed a jail term.
Brett Michael Todd, 33, was arrested on January 29 after officers received information he had breached prison licence condition by being at a prohibited address.
Todd was taken to Workington police station. From the outset, Carlisle Crown Court was told today, he was aggressive and foul-mouthed, telling two officers he would “find out where you live” and “do them both”.
He began threatening a female constable before turning his attention to a male colleague. Todd first shoved him against a wall and then grabbed his arm as he “dived to the floor”, taking the officer with him, twisting and crushing an arm between his chest and the ground.
That caused a shooting pain which left him with a sprain of the forearm, soft tissue damage, and resulted in him being signed off work.
Early last year, Todd had received a suspended prison sentence. But he breached that just two months later by assaulting a former partner, who was left dripping with blood, and was jailed for 10 months plus an additional 12 weeks.
As a result his latest brush with the law, he had been recalled to custody to serve the remainder of that sentence, and was not due to be released until late May of this year.
After Todd, of Priory Drive, Cleator Moor, admitted assaulting an emergency worker on January 29, he received a 20-week prison sentence for what Judge Nicholas Barker called a “disgusting piece of violent behaviour in a police station”.
“Police officers are servants of the community, there to protect all of us; that will include you. They are not there to be subject to violence by the likes of you,” said Judge Barker.
Noting several of Todd’s past 43 offences involved police officers, the judge added: “You struggle with the notion of authority. You, on this occasion, showed no respect or regard for the fact that they had arrested you in breach of your licence agreements.”
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