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Drinker Mark Code spat at six police officers
A MAN who spat in the faces of six separate police officers, smashed up a £750 light fitting at a seafront bar and threatened a woman by saying he would petrol bomb her house has been jailed for six months.
Mark Anthony Code, 33, whose address was given as Haselmere Avenue, Bridlington, was also said at the town's magistrates court last Friday to have shouted lewd and offensive comments from the front garden of his home at passers-by, including an elderly man and young children.
Jailing Code, presiding magistrate Martin Dodgson said police officers should not be spat upon.
"It is outrageous that people carrying out their public duty have to be subjected to this kind of abuse and assault.
"Also, why should a resident, a woman going about her duty of protecting her children and some others from lewd and offensive comments, be so put in fear by your suggestion that you would petrol bomb her home," he asked Code.
The court heard how the incidents related to two separate days.
Andrew Sterling, prosecuting, said on May 12 Code was seen to smash a 750 light fitting outside the Pavilion bar in Esplanade at 5.45pm.
Police were called and he was tracked on CCTV cameras through the town, eventually being arrested in Providence Place.
He was offensive and abusive to a male and two female police officers and, said Mr Sterling, spat in all three of their faces at the same time.
He was charged with assaulting all three but denied it and a trial date was fixed for July 10 and he was given bail.
While on bail on June 24 he was seen in the front garden of a house in Haselmere Avenue and at various times was shouting offensive comments at passers-by.
One local resident, a woman, heard him making lewd comments to two young girls and she discovered he had also been shouting at her young sons who had been coming home from school.
"She went to him and suggested he go inside the house. He told the woman he was going to petrol bomb her house and she called the police," said Mr Sterling.
When officers arrived Code refused to come out of the house and spat out of a window at two police officers, one male and one female, hitting both of them in the face.
"He was forcibly taken from the house by police officers using CS gas and as he was being taken to the police van, he spat in another police constable's face," said Mr Sterling.
He was not co-operative at the police station, telling officers he was drunk at the time of the incident and could not remember what he had done or said," said Mr Sterling, who said Code had a number of previous offences.
Mitigating, Harold Bloomfield told magistrates that Code, who had been in custody sine the June 24 incident, accepted he was likely to go prison.
"When he drinks he becomes resentful of authority.
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He says a term of imprisonment is an opportunity to dry out,” said Mr Bloomfield.
Last Friday, Code pleaded guilty to a total of six counts of assaulting a police officer, two of using threatening or alarming behaviour and one of criminal damage.
He was jailed for three months for assaulting three police constables on May 12 and for three months to run concurrently for criminal damage on the same date.
He was also given a further three months in jail for using threatening or insulting behaviour on June 24 and three months to run concurrently on three counts of assaulting a police officer, making a total of six months in jail.
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