A 56-year-old Bath man has been jailed for a total of 22 weeks by Bath magistrates after admitting a series of offences.
Neil Duncan, of Pitman House in Moorfields Road, was told that there had been a “wilful and persistent failure” to comply with a community order.
The order was imposed for two incidents last year in which he exposed himself, one at Lower Oldfield Park and the other at The Hollow in Southdown.
Duncan had been due to appear in court last month regarding further offences but failed to surrender to the court.
Those offences were two incidents of racially-aggravated abuse towards a security guard at Sainsbury’s in Dorchester Street last year, one on 16th September with intent to cause the guard to believe immediate unlawful violence would be used against him, and the other on 4th November, with Duncan’s behaviour on that occasion causing harassment, alarm or distress.
Duncan also admitted assaulting PC Matthew Cooke in Bath on 16th September and assaulting PC Kyle Rawlings at Keynsham Police Centre on the same date. He kicked PC Cooke in the shin and stamped on PC Rawlings’ foot.
The court heard on Wednesday 18th June that Duncan has 57 convictions for 90 offences.
He is said to be gentle and softly spoken when sober but does not know where the racism comes from when he is “in drink”. He wants to stop and has managed to cut back from 10 cans of strong lager a day to six.
Magistrates were told he has various health problems, including recent surgery for pancreatitis, and has huge memory issues and possibly alcohol-related dementia.
He was also described as being “vulnerable” and had been sleeping at a friend’s house after becoming a victim of cuckooing, which is when people take over the home of another person without their consent to use it for criminal activity.
Magistrates jailed Duncan for 10 weeks for the first offence involving the security guard and four weeks for the second, to run consecutively.
He was ordered to pay him £100 compensation for the first offence and £50 for the second.
Magistrates also ordered Duncan to pay £50 compensation to each police officer he assaulted and he was jailed for four weeks for each assault, to run concurrently
There was no separate penalty for the bail offence and no prosecution costs or surcharge were imposed.
Magistrates told Duncan it would be up to the Prison Service to decide whether he would be released early.
