Dad jailed after assault on police at ex’s home

A dad has been jailed for leaving two policemen with injuries after a violent brawl at his former partner’s home in Sunderland saw all three tumble down a flight of stairs, a court heard.

Shane Aynsley’s defence that his actions may in part have been the result of him suffering from undiagnosed autism, did not spare him a 14-week prison term.

South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court was told Aynsley, 25, at first tried to hide under a bed at his ex-girlfriend’s property in the city when police turned up looking for him after he breached a restraining order by going there.

But he tried to flee when officers were directed to his upstairs hiding place by the terrified woman.

ProsecutorClareIrvingtold South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court that toy shop worker Aynsley, of Disraeli Street, Blyth,hadgonetotheproperty unannouncedandinbreachof a restraining order.

The court heard Aynsley struggled violently with the two police officers, they lost their footing and all three fell down a flight of stairs.

Ainsley had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to two charges of assault by beating againsttwoofficers,breaching a restraining order and commissioning a further offence duringtheperiodofasuspended sentence order.

John Wesencraft, defending, said Aynsley had since been diagnosed with autism.

Aynsley was sentenced to eight weeks imprisonment for the restraining order breach and two weeks for the assault on one of the PCs, to run consecutively. For the second assault, he was given a two-week sentence to run concurrently andafurtherfourweekstorun consecutively for activation of a suspended sentence.