A woman had to hide in a cupboard when a man brandishing a machete gatecrashed a party.
Daniel Tuplin held the 12-inch machete to a man’s throat and thrust the knife towards another after demanding to know where the woman was. Tuplin, 37, of Pearleaf Drive, Barton-upon-Humber admitted two offences of threatening with a weapon and a further offence of racially-aggravated public disorder in Barton on April 26 this year.
Prosecuting, Ellen Boyes told Grimsby Crown Court how friends had gathered at a home in the town for some drinks when there was a disturbance at the front door.
When he barged in at around 12.30am demanding to know the whereabouts of a woman, the host told him she was at her father’s address. But Tuplin pulled out the large knife and began wielding it, thrusting it towards the host. He then held it at the throat of another man.
A guest raised the alarm by calling Humberside Police. Miss Boyes said the armed man fled the scene when he realised the police were responding and went to his home. She described the vile and obscene abuse he shouted at armed police from his window.
He goaded the armed officers to shoot him and uttered racial abuse towards two of the officers. Tuplin was eventually arrested but denied being at the house where there was a party earlier.
The host said in a victim impact statement how terrified he was by the machete being brandished at him. He said he had been unable to sleep and felt shaken by the ordeal.
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Miss Boyes said Tuplin had 21 convictions for 39 offences on his record, including wounding in 2018. Mitigating, Jazmine Lee said her client had been attempting to turn his life around and had been out of trouble since early 2023. She said it was a “relatively short-lived incident.”
Judge Gurdial Singh said the public order was “disgraceful abuse of police officers that was racially-aggravated.” “It was utterly vile behaviour aimed at people carrying out their public duty in response to the incident,” he said.
He jailed Tuplin for a total of 27 months, which included two years for threats with the weapon and three months for the racial abuse of police officers. He imposed a three-year Restraining order not to contact the victims directly or indirectly.