A Carlisle man who threatened city bar worker while drunk has had an existing alcohol ban extended by a judge.
Joseph Alfred Malloy, 34, initially left a Botchergate pub without issue, on February 12 this year, when told he was barred.
But Malloy returned to the bar several hours later. He was drunk and, when reminded about the earlier chat, began clenching his fists and becoming irate.
A friend tried to walk him outside. But as he did so, Malloy turned and made threats before he went for the woman.
“She believed she was going to be hit and she feared violence,” prosecutor Marion Weir told Carlisle Crown Court today.
“I am going to blow your house up,” Malloy warned the woman.
Malloy left the pub but resisted a police officer as he was detained. A spit hood and leg restraints were applied, and it took six officers to restrain him safely and place him in a patrol vehicle.
In an impact statement, the woman said Malloy’s criminal conduct had affected her massively and left her scared Malloy would come to her house.
Ms Weir said: “If she hears a noise in the middle of the night, he is the first person she thinks about.”
The woman had said: “If I could ask Joe one thing, it would be ‘why?’.”
Malloy, of Brantwood Avenue, Carlisle, admitted common assault and resisting a police constable, offences which put him in breach of a suspended prison sentence he was given for a violent city attack.
In March, Malloy was also sentenced for assaulting two emergency service workers during a separate incident. He was given a booze ban and night time curfew as part of that punishment.
During today’s sentencing hearing for the February offences, a judge heard Malloy had complied well with both these requirements as he sought to rehabilitate. Malloy’s barrister said his client was keen for these to be extended to help keep him out of trouble.
Malloy was given a six-month community order. He must complete a two-month night time curfew, a 90-day alcohol abstinence monitoring requirement and pay the bar worker £280 compensation.
He was also banned from contact her and from entering the pub under the terms of an 18-month restraining order.
