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Cannabis smoker who left OAP with gash on his head is found guilty of GBH JURORS took just 90 minutes to convict a man who claimed he had struck a man more than twice his age with a broom handle in self-defence. Aaran Draper, 31, told the jury he’d swung the broom at his 69-year-old neighbour to try at get him away from their garden fence. The pensioner had thrown dog biscuits, bird seed and a piece of wood after complaining of the younger man s cannabis use.
Swindon Crown Court heard the broom left an 18cm gash in the victim’s forehead that required 20 staples.
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Swindon Crown Court A SMOKER accused of striking a 69-year-old with a broom handle in a dispute prompted by his cannabis use accused a barrister of believing “bulls ”. Aaran Draper claims he acted in self-defence when he swung the broom handle at his mother’s neighbour last July. The 31-year-old denies unlawful wounding. Yesterday, jurors at Swindon Crown Court heard that Draper was in the garden of his mother’s home in The Wyncies, Bishopstone, smoking cannabis on July 19 last year. Opening the case, prosecutor Mark Ashley said Draper’s alleged victim and his wife had repeatedly asked the man to stop smoking the drug on previous occasions. “They were unable to open their windows because of the regularity of the smoke coming from Mr Draper smoking cannabis.”
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JAILED: Thief with 103 crimes to his name spat at policeman (and he can t remember doing it) A PROLIFIC shoplifter took a Co-op store assistant to the ground at spat at a police officer just four days after being given a suspended sentence. Nicholas Howard, who has been jailed for 48 weeks at Swindon Crown Court, also racially abused a special constable and tried to steal a £3 bottle of beer. The 41-year-old, who has 103 offences to his name, later told the probation service he’d rather have punched the police officer than spat at him. Jailing him on Friday afternoon, Recorder Elisabeth Bussey-Jones told Howard that he had acted in a “confusing, bizarre, but violent and vile way”.
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Vytautas Ausrota This man rugby tackled a woman to the ground and threatened her with a knife with the intent to sexually assault her. A woman aged in her 50s from Surrey, was walking along the South West Coast path just outside Lyme Regis when she heard a man running toward her from behind at approximately 3pm on Saturday, August 29, 2020. Bournemouth Crown Court heard how Vytautas Ausrota, aged 30 and of Plymouth, approached the victim and rugby tackled her to the ground and knelt on top of her. The victim saw he was holding an orange penknife with the blade out.