The Magistrate's Court in Derry heard yesterday that police officers had to use CS spray to arrest a man who became violent following a domestic incident outside his girlfriend's Bloomfield Park home earlier this year.
Christopher David Patrick McDonagh (34), of Cornshell Fields, was jailed for six months, disqualified from driving for ten years and fined £300 when he admitted a number of motoring and assault charges.
District Judge Eamon King was told that the
defendant was being produced in custody because he had been jailed for two years and nine months at the Crown Court in Omagh earlier this week following his conviction for a series of burglaries.
A prosecution solicitor told the Court that police were called to a domestic incident at Bloomfield Park on March 4 last.
"The defendant had been in an argument with his girlfriend and her neighbours and had been involved in a fight,” she said.
“When the police officers tried to reason with him, he became verbally and physically abusive and was heavily intoxicated.
"He struck out at the police officers, headbutting one of them, kicking another and fracturing another officer's finger. The officers then had to use CS spray to detain him", the solicitor added.
"He was arrested for disorderly behaviour, assault, resisting arrest, driving while unfit due to drink and driving while disqualified", she said.
Jailing McDonagh for six months, Mr. King described his record as atrocious.
‘Not a nice person’
"You are not a particularly nice person particularly when you are under the influence of alcohol", he said.
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