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A drug addict took his ex partner’s dog and car keys and demanded £200 for crack cocaine or he would not give them back. He later returned the dog after he turned into given £100.
Michael Gent, 34, of Glyncoch, Pontypridd, had been in an on/off relationship with Samantha Gent . On September 3 last three hundred and sixty five days, she called her mother Katrina Oliver and acknowledged the defendant had taken her dog Manny and a spot of car keys.
A sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Courtroom on Tuesday heard Gent turned into “anxious” to receive support of £200 to spend on crack cocaine. Ms Oliver asked her son to steal money from the money point and had been about to form their technique to the defendant’s house when they bumped into him strolling in opposition to their house.
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Prosecutor James Evans acknowledged Gent had the dog with him and after a short negotiation popular £100 and gave the dog back. He claimed the car keys had been at a undeniable location but Ms Oliver and her son had been unable to search out them. The police had been called and the defendant turned into arrested. A search of his house resulted in the car keys being chanced on.
Gent, of Pearson Crescent, later pleaded responsible to blackmail. The court docket heard he had 17 old convictions for offences together with prison injury, public order offence, boulevard visitors offences, possession of a bladed article, breach of a restraining order, and racially aggravated harassment. He also had convictions for battery and normal assault on Ms Gent after he grabbed her by the throat and sprayed her with bleach.
In mitigation, Sol Hartley acknowledged his consumer’s offence turned into “not sophisticated” and there turned into no violence or threat of violence. He acknowledged the defendant’s remand in custody had allowed him to abstain from medicines and to initiate studying the ideal technique to read and write. The father-of-two also wished to reinstate contact with his formative years.
Recorder David Payne sentenced Gent to a total of 46 weeks imprisonment. Because of the the quantity of time he has spent on remand in custody it is seemingly he will be launched within a subject of days.
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