The warning was given by a judge at Durham Crown Courtroom to defendant Elliot Bradley Dougal after his plea hearing these days (Thursday, February 23).
Appearing via jail to court docket movie hyperlink, from close by HMP Durham, exactly where he is on remand, the 23-yr-old defendant admitted arson becoming reckless as to no matter whether existence was endangered.
He denied the extra severe different of arson with intent to endanger lifestyle.
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It relates to a hearth he started off on a couch in the living room at a rented property, in Chaytor Highway, Bridgehill, Consett, where he was residing at the time, in the early several hours of Wednesday, December 28, final year.
Dougal also admitted damaging home, a law enforcement cage car, in which he was remaining transported to a police station next his arrest.
He was reported to have spitted around the rear of the vehicle, which experienced to be put out use to be washed.
Dougal also admitted assaulting an emergency worker, spitting at a police officer in the eye and mouth, head-butting him in the chest and kicking him in the legs, when he was under escort being checked at hospital.
Peter Sabiston, prosecuting, claimed those people pleas had been thought of “acceptable” by the Crown.
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Choose James Adkin commented: “Isn’t it like people lads in the 1970s who established fire to a haystack and then waited for the hearth brigade to get there to set it out?”
Tony Davis, for Dougal, agreed, “to an extent”.
But he included: “We do need to have a psychiatric report and a medical doctor will be viewing the defendant tomorrow.
“We will be assisted by his view.”
Choose Adkin explained as it is a “custody case” a stick to-up pre-sentence report by the Probation Support would not be necessary.
He advised Dougal: “It’s, in a natural way, a significant circumstance. You have pleaded responsible to some of the fees and individuals pleas are satisfactory.
“The subsequent stage is for you to be sentenced.
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“You are to be assessed by a psychiatrist and I will sentence you in a couple months.”
Choose Adkin extra: “You should anticipate to obtain a custodial sentence, but you will keep on being on remand in custody till that hearing.”
Dougal will be sentenced at the court docket on Friday, March 17.
