31-year-old had been arrested for sending offensive messages
A Douglas man who flooded a police cell during a ‘tantrum’ has been ordered to pay for the clean-up.
Ashley Graham Kelly, of Strand Street, stuffed a blanket down a toilet at Police Headquarters after he was arrested on 19 December.
The 31-year-old had sent offensive or menacing voice messages to a woman he knew telling her: “I’ll stab you” and “Your mate is going to die and so are you.”
Kelly admitted both offences at Douglas Courthouse telling the court what he’d sent was done in the ‘heat of the moment’ adding: “I’m not a violent person.”
Magistrates described his behaviour in the police cell as ‘totally unacceptable’ adding the messages he’d sent prior to his arrest had been ‘frightening and intimidating’.
They fined Kelly £550 and ordered him to pay £150 in compensation and £125 in prosecution costs.
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