More violent offences from shirtless thug

A THUG was hauled back before a court after repeated offences of barechested violence.

Shai Linton got in trouble with the law in the early hours when, with his shirt off, he drunkenly punched a stranger and aimed another blow at a man on the floor.

Following the incident in Clumber Street, Mansfield, he pleaded guilty to affray on February 4. He received four months in prison, suspended for 12 months, plus 80 hours of unpaid work.

But four weeks later Nottingham Crown Court heard that a shirtless Linton, who was again drunk, kicked out at a policewoman as she tried to apprehend him following a disturbance near the White Hind bar in Cater Gate, Newark.

His kick connected with the officer’s chest and she complained of pain to her chest and shoulder. Linton, 23, previously of Hachets Lane, Newark, had no other previous convictions except for the suspended prison sentence.

The officer said she had attended the incident to help protect the public but the defendant, a warehouse worker, was verbally abusive.

“She says she does not come to work to be assaulted and put in fear of violence,” said Stephan Fox, prosecuting, on Tuesday.

Linton pleaded guilty to the breach of the sentence and his punishment was 40 more hours of unpaid work.

For assaulting the policewoman, he was fined £250, ordered to pay probation costs of £150 and costs to the Crown Prosecution Service of £250.

Judge Mark Watson told him he had six months to pay, and that he had been very close to going to prison.