A 56-YEAR-OLD man who threatened to kill workers on a building site and later shouted abuse at the police has been jailed for two months.
Antonio Romano Capuano, who has a string of previous convictions, committed the offences on the morning of 9 February.
Advocate Sophie Lister, prosecuting, told the Magistrate’s Court that Capuano tried to enter a construction site in Clare Street but was refused access by a Nigerian security guard.
Capuano shouted racist abuse at him, and after being asked to leave the area, he told the workers: ‘I’ll kill you. I’d take on all of you and kill you all.’
When a manager at the site approached, the defendant shouted abuse at her, calling her ‘a fat Jersey cow’.
The manager called the police who caught up with Capuano riding a scooter along The Parade.
‘He stood in the road shouting and gesticulating. Officers took out their Tasers but he continued shouting and swearing.’
Advocate Lister said that he made ‘some admissions’ at police headquarters and later pleaded guilty to threatening and abusive behaviour
Advocate Heidi Heath, defending, said Capuano had been ‘confused’ and pointed out: ‘He did take steps to move away from the first incident.’
She said that after his release from prison he planned to get involved with support services at St Mark’s Church. She added: ‘He has asked me to apologise to everyone.’
Relief Magistrate David Le Cornu told Capuano he deserved some credit for pleading guilty, so sparing any witnesses from the ordeal of having to give evidence at a trial.
But he warned him to change his behaviour, saying: ‘The sentences are only going to get longer and longer.’
He jailed him for one month for the threatening and abusive behaviour at the building site and another for the threatening and abusive behaviour in The Parade, with the two to run consecutively.
