A thug was hauled back before a court for another offence of violence when he was barechested. Shai Linton got in trouble with the law, with his shirt off, in the early hours when he drunkenly punched a stranger and aimed another blow to a man on the floor.
Following the incident in Clumber Street, Mansfield, he was sentenced after pleading guilty to affray on February 4 this year. He received four months in prison, suspended for 12 months, with unpaid work for 80 hours.
But, despite being given a chance, four weeks later Nottingham Crown Court heard a shirtless Linton, who was again drunk, kicked out at a policewoman as she tried to apprehend him following a disturbance near the White Hind bar in Cater Gate, Newark. His kick connected with the officer's chest and she complained of pain to her chest and shoulder.
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Linton, 23, previously of Hachets Lane, Newark, had no other previous convictions except for the suspended prison sentence. The officer said she had attended the incident to help protect the public but the defendant, a warehouse worker, was verbally abusive.
"She says she does not come to work to be assaulted and put in fear of violence," said Stephan Fox, prosecuting, on Tuesday (November 15). Linton pleaded guilty to the breach of the sentence and his punishment was 40 hours extra of unpaid work.
For assaulting the policewoman, he was fined £250, ordered to pay probation costs of £150 and costs to the Crown Prosecution Service of £250. Judge Mark Watson told him he had six months to pay, and he had been very close to going to prison.
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