‘Raging’ criminal in threat to attack others at city hostel

A “raging” criminal threatened to attack other residents at the supported accommodation in Derby where they were living.

During the episode, in Trowels Lane, Patrick Mangan smashed a TV, damaged a microwave and said he would “do” one of the other men staying there.

Southern Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court heard the 38-yearold flew into a fit of anger over money he was expecting from his benefits.

Now he has three weeks to find out if he will be sent to prison.

Peter Bettany, prosecuting, said: “This is a matter in which the defendant seems to have lost his temper in the home where he was living.

“It is supported housing for people with different issues and in his statement one of the team leaders there said the defendant suddenly started shouting and raging about wanting his universal credit.

“He said he saw Mr Mangan’s door was hanging off and then one of the other residents got involved, pushing him back.

“He said the defendant picked up a toaster and went to throw it at a third resident, shouting abuse at him. He then dragged a TV off the wall, causing it to smash.”

Mr Bettany said the team leader went on to say how Mangan “continued to rage” inside the home and threatened another resident saying “I will do him, I’m not scared of him” and then threatened to “knock the block off” a different resident.

He said the police arrived and Mangan told the officer “I broke stuff up because they would not give me my medication”.

Mangan then answered “no comment” in his interview, but this week pleaded guilty to common assault and criminal damage.

He also admitted the offences put him in breach of a suspended sentence order, but the court was not told what that was imposed for.

Mark Luckett, mitigating, said his client was almost at the end of that order, which was handed to him in April 2019, and that he had not troubled the courts since then.

He said: “He apologises through me for the way he behaved and told me he is extremely disappointed in himself for the way he behaved on December 29.

“I asked him why he behaved in such a way and he told me he thinks it is to do with the transition of his mental health medication. He has put forward his mother’s address in Hall Park Close and she has said he can live there.”

Magistrates committed the matter to Derby Crown Court, where Mangan will appear on January 21 to be sentenced.

They handed him conditional bail to live and sleep each night at his mother’s home and not to go to the residential address where he committed the offences.