19-year-old 'flipped' after hearing knocking
A teenager from Douglas has been ordered to work with the probation service for a year after trying to spray furniture polish in his neighbour’s face.
Connor Lewis-Drew, of Close Ollay, got ‘into a rage’ just before midnight on 14 August.
The 19-year-old later admitted common assault and damaging and destroying property.
During sentencing at Douglas Courthouse the court was told Lewis-Drew’s neighbours had heard a loud bang from their front garden and found their bird bath and front gate had been broken.
When they went next door to confront the teen he told them: “That’s what you get for all the knocking.”
Lewis-Drew was arrested and told police the women had been ‘listening in on him’ and he’d ‘flipped’; he also claimed that when anything derogatory was said on TV he could hear them knocking.
His advocate told the court his client needed help away from the property adding: “What was already a simmering pot has boiled over.”
Sentencing Lewis-Drew to probation, and ordering him to pay prosecution costs of £125, High Bailiff James Brooks told him: “It really was quite the rage on that day.”
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