Officer attacked as he tried to help drunk man

A POLICE officer who helped a drunken man was attacked and told he would get a “bullet”.

Tyler Mapp, who was wandering in the middle of an Anglesey street, turned on the officer.

But a judge at Caernarfon Crown Court said the defendant, of Llain Delyn, Gwalchmai, could be rehabilitated and spared him jail.

Prosecutor Laura Knightly told the court a police officer spotted Mapp, 23, on a street in Menai Bridge walking into oncoming traffic. He got out of his patrol car and asked Mapp if he was OK.

Then he held the defendant’s arm and tried to guide him out of the road. But the defendant asked him: “Who the f*** are you to touch me?”

He clenched his fists and said: “I’m going to kill you. I’m going to put a bullet in your head. I’m going to chop off your head.”

Mapp then punched the inspector in a “relentless” attack and spat at him.

The inspector got one handcuff on Mapp but Mapp bit his arm.

Mapp then told him: “You’re going to get burned alive. I’ll have someone burn your house.”

A sergeant arrived and Mapp spat at her too, but missed. Mapp told her: “My uncle’s going to sort you out. You’re dead.”

The judge, Her Honour Nicola Saffman, jailed Mapp for two years for assault occasioning actual bodily harm, but suspended it for two years.

He must do 150 hours of unpaid work, wear an alcohol abstinence monitoring tag for 120 days and keep to a 9pm till 6am curfew. He also has to do 20 days of rehabilitation activity.

He received a fourmonth jail term for threatening to damage property, eight months for threatening to kill the inspector and one month for assaulting the sergeant by spitting - all to run concurrently.

These were “extremely onerous” requirements, added the judge, who also said Mapp must pay £1,000 to the inspector and £100 to the sergeant in compensation.

She told the defendant: “I can’t tell you how close you were to going to prison today.”