Victims had boarded a train from Worthing to Brighton station when Rudi Webster was seen acting strangely. The 30-year-old was shouting loudly at a friend on a video call, then became “paranoid” when passengers looked at him. At one passenger he shouted: “What the f are you looking at?” Meanwhile at two teenagers he shouted: “Are you chatting s about me? What the f did you say? I’m going to stab you.” Brighton Magistrates’ Court heard how Webster had left one passenger in fear that the screwdriver was in fact a knife. Webster was given a 16-week suspended sentence and was ordered to complete an anger management programme and was put under curfew for three months.
David Brooks Marr denies failing to set a proper watch on board the fishing trawler Vertrouwen, inset, which caused men s deaths off the coast of Shoreham A TRAWLER captain who was looking at his phone instead of watching the sea when his boat washed three men overboard to their deaths has been jailed for 12 months. Skipper David Brooks Marr, from Peterhead in Scotland, made a deliberate decision to risk a collision at sea so he could look at his phone, a judge told him. He could and should have seen the other boat before the wash from his scallop dredger sank it, drowning three men.
Thomas Reed had gone to the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton over concerns about his health. But the 37-year-old swore at other patients and was angry he was not getting help for his alcoholism. He was seen shouting in the main reception at other patients, and when asked to stop swearing he called one nurse a c . Another nurse tried to calm him down, so he spat at her and stormed off. At Brighton Magistrates’ Court it was revealed he suffered a brain injury in 2015 and has battled homelessness, alcoholism and substance misuse. Martina Sherlock, prosecuting, said the offence took place on October 7 last year, and when he was arrested said: “So what? I spat at someone.”
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