In the latest incident, he barricaded himself in a house after being warned he could be Tasered
A young troublemaker shouted “I’ll kill you all” – and threw a bicycle at a police officer – before defiantly barricading himself inside a house after being warned that he could be Tasered. Kian Scott had, during an earlier complete loss of control, left a trail of destruction after targeting a series of parked cars during a “bizarre rampage” of mindless criminal damage, Hull Crown Court heard.
Scott, 21, of Sharp Street, west Hull, admitted assaulting a police officer as an emergency worker on April 23. He was in breach of an eight-month suspended custodial sentence imposed in December for damaging a window at a house on August 16 last year, five offences of causing criminal damage to five cars and an offence of attempted burglary at a house on August 19 last year.
Beatrice Allsop, prosecuting, said that a police constable went to a house after a report of an ongoing incident involving six people. He knocked on the door and, after it was answered by someone else, he asked Scott to come over.
Scott said: “Get away before I smack them all. I will kill you all.” There was the sound of banging and clattering and the noise of a bottle smashing. The officer left for his own safety. Scott continued to throw things around and he shouted: “I’ll kill you all.”
He stormed downstairs and left the house. He made threats to the constable, grabbed a bicycle and threw it towards him. The officer had to move to avoid being hit and he drew his Taser.
He told Scott to get to the floor but he ran back into the house and barricaded himself behind the door. Scott was arrested and he repeatedly apologised.
He had convictions for 10 previous offences, including being given a four-month suspended custodial sentence in August last year for possessing a knife. He was also separately in breach of the eight-month suspended sentence for the vandalism matters.
Jane Rapin, mitigating, said that Scott had kept out of trouble since the incident involving the police in April. He pleaded guilty to assaulting the police officer. He was willing to receive help for drug and alcohol problems.
Sentence was deferred for six months until January 15 so that Scott could prove that he could keep out of trouble and for him to receive help from an agency. Judge Alexander Menary said it was a chance for Scott to prove whether he could “last the year without committing offences”.
The previous offences of criminal damage involving the cars and windows of neighbours involved a “bizarre rampage”. Judge Menary said that Scott would not be jailed at the next hearing if he kept his side of the bargain and did not get into further trouble.
But he warned Scott: “If you fail to comply with the terms of the deferment and commit any further offences, all bets are off.” At the hearing in December last year, the court heard that the first criminal damage offence happened at a house in Anlaby Park Road South in the early hours of the morning after Scott and his mother had been arguing.
He threw items at a window belonging to a woman who lived next door, causing damage. The first offence of damaging a car was discovered after the owner heard shouting and, the next morning, found that the windscreen of her car parked in Grimston Road, Anlaby, had been smashed.
Another car owner, in Wolfreton Road, Anlaby, woke up in the morning to find the windscreen cracked, the court heard. The owner was alerted by a neighbour that the windscreen was damaged.
The third car damaged, also in Wolfreton Road, was owned by the daughter of the previous victim. She was alerted by her father that her car had been damaged. The owner of the fourth car, in Grimston Road, woke up to find damage to the windscreen.
The fifth car owner was the boyfriend of the woman whose window was damaged. He was alerted about the arguing and, when he went to leave for work the next morning, he found that a windscreen wiper had been bent back and cement had been thrown at the passenger window.
There was damage to the paintwork in the bonnet area. The attempted burglary happened at The Ridings, off Willerby Road, west where a man, who lived there with his daughter, heard noises in the early hours that sounded like metal breaking, the court heard.
He heard voices and the sound of items cracking. He alerted the police. It was discovered that a garden hoe had been taken from a shed and broken into pieces.
A garden fork was used to to force open a kitchen window. The occupier arranged to change all the locks for added security, the court heard.
Miss Rapin told the court that day that Scott had been drinking heavily at the time. He lost control of himself for a short period of time after suffering difficulties and getting drunk. He claimed to have no memory of what he did during the incidents.
Scott pleaded guilty at an early stage and he had expressed genuine remorse. He did not want the same poor behaviour to happen again and he wanted to change his life for the better, said Miss Rapin.
Scott was, that day, given an eight-month suspended prison sentence and he was ordered to pay £700 compensation – £100 to each victim.