A Bath man who punched a police community support officer (PCSO) has been jailed for 16 weeks after his community order was revoked.
Sitting at Bath Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday 19th November, District Judge Lynne Matthews heard that 49-year-old Simon Heard had missed Probation Service and drug rehabilitation appointments.
Heard, whose address was given on the court list as Rackfield House in Bath, admitted failing to comply with the requirements of a community order without reasonable excuse.
The order had been made by Bristol magistrates in April after Heard was convicted of assaulting an emergency worker at Shophouse Road in Twerton on 16th February and obstructing an emergency worker in the execution of their duty.
District Judge Matthews was told that Heard had a heroin problem, which he had overcome, but he had spiralled into using crack cocaine.
She said Heard saying that he now wanted to engage under his community order was “too little, too late” and that his non-compliance had been “wilful”.
Revoking the order, she re-sentenced him to 16 weeks in prison for the assault and three weeks for obstructing an emergency worker. The sentences will run concurrently.
