Man wielded machete in ‘bizarre’ attempt to win back girlfriend
AMACHETEWIELDING thug who ran down a street waving the weapon and kicking over bins when his former girlfriend refused to take him back has been jailed.
Ross Hoyle, of Thorn Bank, Bacup, was caught being unfaithful to his girlfriend of more than three years after she hacked into his Facebook account and found that he had written a message to another woman saying ‘love you princess, a court heard.
The 20-year-old defendant went round to the girlfriend’s house in Whitworth to collect his belongings on August 15 last year and during an argument ‘unintentionally’ spat on her face and assaulted her by grabbing her arms and pushing her onto a sofa, the court heard.
Prosecutor Stephen Parker told Burnley Crown Court how Hoyle was also ‘aggressive’ after discovering the victim had ripped some of his clothes.
When police went to arrest Hoyle he was ‘heavily under the influence of alcohol’ and ‘took up a defensive stance with clenched fist’, the hearing was told.
Officers used PAVA spray to incapacitate him.
Plastering apprentice Hoyle was arrested and bailed with a condition not to contact his expartner.
However at around 10pm on November 4 he went round to her home on Tong Lane and knocked on her door ‘for some considerable time.’
The court heard how the victim, who was in the house with a friend, repeatedly told Hoyle through a window to go away before he called her a ‘scruff’ and began kicking the front door.
Mr Parker said when the victim opened the door Hoyle ‘pulled a machete from the inside of his jogging bottoms’ and then ‘ran away from the house down the street screaming’.
He said: “[Hoyle was] saying he loved her and wanted her back, wanted to be arrested and couldn’t deal with not being with her.”
The court heard how he was ‘kicking out at bins on the street’ before the ‘embarrassed’ victim eventually let him into her house. Mr Parker said Hoyle then ‘started smirking and looking smug with himself’.
Police were called by a neighbour on the street and Hoyle ran upstairs ‘in a vain attempt to hide’.
Hoyle pleaded guilty to having a machete in a public place, using threatening or abusive words or behaviour, assault by beating and resisting a police officer.
He was jailed for a total of 30 weeks.