A former mechanic who 'lost everything' during the pandemic went on a booze-fuelled crime spree that saw him argue with a LAMPPOST, smash up a casino and brandish a knife in front of passengers on a bus.
David Potter, 42, narrowly avoided an immediate prison sentence after a heartfelt mea culpa to magistrates who agreed to 'give him a chance' and pleaded with him to 'not let us down.' Potter's 'catalogue' of offending began in January this year when police were called due to him 'becoming aggressive' on a bus on Hempshaw Lane, and refusing to get off. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community Officers attended, but as they were arresting him for being drunk and disorderly he began to 'resist' and kicked one of them in the chest, Gareth Hughes, prosecuting said. "Fortunately no injury was caused," he added.
On Wednesday, March 5, there was an incident outside his Potter's mother's house in Offerton, where he launched a tirade against her neighbour.
He was shouting, swearing and being verbally abusive to the woman and others in her house the court was told. At one point he started 'swinging from a lamppost shouting 'I am going to f*****g kill you.' "and 'then started arguing with the lamppost.
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