The man – who has 136 offences to his name – said when police caught up with him: ‘Why do I always get arrested?’
A cruel thug angrily punched a dog – causing it to “yelp in pain” – after hurling nasty abuse at a woman as she was innocently getting into her car and putting the dog in its car seat. The shocked woman told him that there was no need to hit the dog but he defiantly responded by viciously punching the defenceless animal again in a “deliberate and persistent attack”.
Drug addict Liam Huteson later menaced and threatened another woman who had initially just “laughed off” his antics as “Typical Bransholme!” – but she soon got a very frightening awakening, Hull Crown Court heard. Huteson, 33, of Bacheler Street, off Anlaby Road, west Hull, but recently in custody on remand, admitted affray, causing unnecessary suffering to a dog, possessing a knife in public and two offences of causing criminal damage on November 17.
Harry Bradford, prosecuting, said that a woman left her mother’s home and was getting into her Citroen car in Haydock Garth, Bransholme, with her small dog. “She put the dog in his car seat and put on his seat belt before opening the car window for him,” said Mr Bradford.
She got into the car but heard Huteson shout: “I will f***ing kill you, you c***.” He looked at the woman and called her “Rosie” but this was not her name.
“He punched her dog, causing him to yelp in pain and half-fall into the footwell of the car, dangling by the seat belt attached to his harness,” said Mr Bradford. She pulled the dog back up and told Huteson: “What the f*** you doing, you k***head? There was no need for that.”
Huteson leaned into the car and punched the dog again. “The dog once more yelped in pain,” said Mr Bradford. “It was a deliberate and persistent attack on a dog.”
Huteson shouted: “I will kill you, you c***, I will f***ing kill you.” He attacked the passenger window and parts of the car with a knife, causing damage.
At this point, a woman and her 15-year-old son entered the street in her white Jeep. “They heard the shouting and laughed it off, saying ‘Typical Bransholme!’,” said Mr Bradford. “However, this was anything but typical Bransholme.”
She spotted that the male shouting was Huteson – a man she had known for many years. “She saw him raise a knife above his head and run towards her and her son,” said Mr Bradford.
“She told her son to get into the car and locked the doors quickly.” Huteson told her: “I know where you live. I have seen you six times before. Come on, come on – you think I’m a nutter. I know where you live.”
Huteson repeatedly tapped the blade of the knife on the window of the car. The woman was “frozen in fear”. Huteson damaged the rear of the car with the knife. She accelerated away in fear – and stopped to warn her neighbour that Huteson was attacking people.
Police were alerted because Huteson was in the street waving the knife about. They went to his home and he spoke to officers through a window, saying: “Why do I always get arrested?” The knife was seized.
During police interview, Huteson was aggressive and refused to answer questions. He had convictions for 136 previous offences, with six involving weapons, including being jailed for 14 weeks in March 2020 for two offences of threatening a person with a blade in public.
He was also jailed for 14 months in January 2022 and for eight months in July 2022, both for possessing a blade. He was jailed for 18 weeks in January 2025 for a public order offence and he was locked up for 20 weeks in April 2025 for four theft offences.
Connor Stuart, mitigating, said that Huteson pleaded guilty at the first opportunity. “He accepts full responsibility for this conduct,” said Mr Stuart. “There has been no attempt to minimise it.
“He understands that his behaviour was unacceptable and frightening. This was not planned offending. It was against a backdrop of severe substance misuse.
“It was clearly chaotic, disinhibited behaviour fuelled by drugs. These matters repeatedly escalated. It was impulsive behaviour. Repeated short prison sentences have failed to address the root cause of this offending.”
Recorder Andrew Haslam KC told Huteson: “You have a really bad record for offending. The effect of your actions on those in the street has been profound.”
Huteson was jailed for 16 months.