‘I found a brick, so I decided to throw it through the window’
VANDAL WAS CAUGHT AND DETAINED BY PUB LANDLORD
A PUB boss tracked down and apprehended a man who had randomly smashed one of his windows with a brick that was lying in the street.
The vandal, 20-year-old Kaylon Wilson, immediately apologised and offered to pay for the damage to the Queen Victoria, in Syston, a court heard.
The landlord had closed the High Street pub for the night when Wilson spotted the brick on the ground as he walked past, prosecutor Sukhy Singh told Leicester Magistrates’ Court.
Mr Singh told the court that the landlord was getting ready to go to bed when he heard a loud bang.
“He jumped up and looked out of the window and saw a brick on the ground and a young man walking up the road.
“The pub’s alarm was also sounding and he went out to try to find the man.
“He couldn’t at first, so he got into his car and eventually found him.
“He detained him and asked him why he’d smashed the window and the defendant immediately said ‘I’ll pay for the damage, I’m sorry’.
“The landlord asked him why he had done it and he replied ‘I found the brick and I thought I’d throw it through the window.’”
The landlord called police and Wilson was arrested. He answered “no comment” when he was interviewed in custody.
Wilson, of St Columbia Way in the town, appeared in court last week and admitted a single charge of criminal damage.
Peter Jennings, representing Wilson, who has a number of previous convictions, said: “This event arises out of drunken stupidity.
“He tells me it was a spur of the moment thing - the brick was there, so he threw it at the window.
“He has been back to the pub since to apologise.”
He has an “emotionally unstable personality disorder” and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ( ADHD), Mr Jennings added.
Magistrate Simon Edwards told him: “The last time you were in a court was a year ago, so what a pity you have committed this offence and are back here again.
“You need to consider leaving your criminal offending behind you.”
Wilson was fined £80 and ordered to pay £100 compensation to the pub.
It was spur of the moment - the brick was there, so he threw it at the window
Peter Jennings, mitigating