There was an ongoing dispute over loud music being performed in Dean Williams’ flat
A dispute over loud music led a person to take an axe to his neighbour’s flat and threaten to kill him, a courtroom has heard. Dean Williams smashed up his neighbour’s entrance door with the weapon and informed him to come back out of the property to face him.
Swansea Crown Courtroom heard there had been ongoing points in regards to the noise coming from Williams’ flat, and that the night time earlier than the assault the sufferer had been unable to get any sleep due to the amount of the music. The sufferer later stated he had been “terrified” for a while that one thing was going to occur and had simply been ready for it.
Sian Cutter, prosecuting, informed the courtroom that the sufferer within the case lived within the flat above Williams within the Sandfields space of Port Talbot, and that “for some” he had been having issues with loud music coming from the defendant’s flat.
She stated on the night time of April 21 this 12 months the complainant had been unable to sleep as a result of quantity of the music coming from his neighbour’s property and the next day had made a grievance.
The courtroom heard that on the night of the twenty second Williams returned house and appeared to have discovered {that a} grievance had been made. The defendant was heard shouting “Who? Him upstairs? I am going to kill him” earlier than storming up the steps.
The prosecutor stated the sufferer was in his flat when he heard a “loud smashing noise” coming from his entrance door – he went to verify what was occurring and noticed a smashed glass panel and his 57-year-old neighbour Williams standing within the hallway holding an axe and shouting “Come out right here! I am going to kill you!”
The police have been referred to as and when officers went to Griffiths’ downstairs flat he answered the door nonetheless holding the axe. The prosecutor stated Williams “gave the impression to be beneath the affect of one thing”. For all the newest courtroom tales signal as much as our crime e-newsletter
In an influence assertion which was learn to the courtroom by the prosecution barrister, the sufferer stated even earlier than the incident he had been “terrified that one thing would occur” and he had been simply ready for it. He stated when Griffiths smashed his door and threatened him he believed his neighbour was going to assault him and possibly even kill him with the axe. The sufferer stated he was relieved when police arrived and took the defendant away however stated he was involved that “others” might search to hold out a revenge assault on him over what had occurred.
The courtroom heard that the price of the harm executed to the Tai Tarian housing affiliation flat was put at between £400 and £500.
Dean Williams, of Moorland Highway, Sandfields, Port Talbot, had beforehand pleaded responsible to threatening with a bladed article and to prison harm when he appeared within the dock for sentencing. A rely of creating threats to kill was deserted.
The courtroom heard Williams has 19 earlier convictions for 32 offences together with battery, assault occasioning precise bodily hurt, and possession of a bladed article.
Stuart John, for Williams, stated he had requested his consumer why he did what he did to his neighbour, and stated the defendant had informed him he has little or no recollection of the occasions of the night however did say there had been “on-going points about noise”. The advocate stated the consumption of far an excessive amount of alcohol had characterised the defendant’s life so far and stated on the age of 57 his consumer desires to make adjustments. He stated there was an argument that the longer Williams spends in jail within the quick and medium time period the higher it might be for his rehabilitation.
Decide Catherine Richards stated given the defendant’s previous convictions and the failure of earlier courtroom orders to help Williams, she had come to the conclusion that there was no practical prospect of rehabilitation on the present time. She stated the defendant was professing a need to make adjustments in his life, and she or he informed him she hoped he would achieve this.
With a one-quarter low cost for his responsible pleas Williams was sentenced to 21 months in jail. He’ll serve 40 per cent of the sentence in custody earlier than being launched on licence to serve the rest locally.
