A MARYPORT man involved in a bitter relationship break up was repeatedly arrested after she accused him of taking goods which were not his, a court heard.
The bad feeling spilled over into law breaking when police made yet another attempt to arrest Thomas MacMillan on Friday, December 30, and he resisted and became verbally abusive towards the arresting officers.
The defendant, of John Street, Maryport, pleaded guilty to police obstruction when he appeared before Carlisle's Rickergate court.
Prosecutor Pam Ward said the defendant initially swore at the police officers when the arrived at his front door in Maryport to question him. Through the partially opened door, he swore and told them: “You’re not coming in here.”
As the officers pushed their way into the property, MacMillan ran to his bedroom and again tried to hold the door shut, preventing them from getting in. The officers succeeded in getting and then tried to handcuff MacMillan.
“They got the cuffs on one of his wrists but he raised his left arm so they couldn’t be handcuffed,” said Mrs Ward. In the struggle that followed, the defendant tried desperately to not be detained.
At one point, as the officers tried to take him to their van, he lay down on the ground. He was verbally abusive. “Wait till you se what happens when you open this door,” he told officers once he was inside the van.
Andrew Gurney, for MacMillan, said: “His partner of ten years had ended the relationship and it was not an amicable break up.
"His former partner said he’d stolen items of clothing, electrical things, and a TV and this happened three or four times and arrested him.
“On this evening, he’d been drinking and accepts he resisted. He was getting to breaking point because he kept on being arrested over false allegations.”
The defendant had been ejected from his home and was now having to effectively rebuild his life, said Mr Gurney. The lawyer added that there was no violence or aggression, simply an attempt to hold his hand above his head to avoid being handcuffed.
Magistrates imposed an £80 fine, with £85 costs. The defendant originally gave the court an address in Aspatria.
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