I want to say hello to killer in the street
WOMAN ASKS FOR RESTRAINING ORDER TO BE REMOVED
A WOMAN asked for a restraining order preventing a convicted killer from contacting her to be removed – so that she can say hello to him on the street.
Karlton Cummings was jailed for seven years for the manslaughter of his younger brother.
Then in March he was convicted of using threatening behaviour after being accused of storming round to his former partner’s home in Lowerhouses and threatening to kill everyone inside.
At the time Kirklees magistrates made a two year restraining order banning him from contacting her.
But the victim came to court asking for the court order to be removed. She said: “I want to be able to bump into him in the street and say hello.”
At the previous hearing the 40-yearold appeared from HMP Armley and pleaded guilty to using threatening or abusive words or behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.
The Huddersfield court was told that the couple had a volatile relationship and police were called out to them five times previously.
On March 13 they received a 999 call from her to say that Cummings was at her home.
The victim was there with her son and a friend and Cummings attended, banging on her windows and demanding to be let in.
Prosecutor Vanessa Jones said: “He shouted: ‘You’ve got another male in there’.
“He tried to get the door open and was shouting: ‘I’m going to kill everyone in this house - open the f*****g door!’”
At one stage Cummings, of Clare Hill in Huddersfield, threatened to damage the windows.
He denied making threats to kill but admitted that he did swear and use unpleasant language.
Magistrates made a two year restraining order banning Cummings from contacting the victim or going to her home.
At the time of the incident the victim told police: “I’m very scared of him due to him having stabbed and killed somebody before.”
In January 2002 Cummings was jailed for seven years for killing his younger brother at his flat in Battersea, London.
He was 22 when he stabbed 20-yearold Clayton in the chest during a row.
The woman told a district judge she didn’t want the restraining order in the first place and asked him to remove it.
She said: “He was drunk that night. He’s killed his brother in the past and that’s why I was frightened of him.”
Prosecutor Shamalia Qureshi said that police were concerned about lifting the restraining order as ‘clearly he is a violent man and they have concerns’.
The victim said that while she had been in a relationship with Cummings for four years they were no longer together.
She said: “We were supposed to be getting married but that’s all finished now.
“He’s got no reason to come to the house.
“I’ve done hundreds of prison visits and there’s four years of history.
“I want to be able to bump into him in the street and say hello. I don’t want to have to run across the road.”
Judge Fanning agreed to lift the restraining order. He said: “I have concerns but ultimately I have to respect you as an adult.
“The order is gone and it’s now up to you to police your own life.”