Prison for anti-gay Kent bathroom attacker
A man has been jailed after he climbed up a drainpipe and into a gay man’s bathroom to attack him.
John Smith, of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, shouted “I don’t care if you’re gay, I’m going to stab you,” as he climbed into the man’s home, the Kent and Sussex Courier reports.
The attack launched by Smith, an alcoholic, was described as unprovoked. He also spat at a police officer who attended the scene.
He was charged with common assault, the use of threatening words or behaviour and assaulting a police officer.
Smith, 28, climbed into Nicholas Thake’s bathroom on 16 September last year.
James Nichols, prosecuting at Sevenoaks Magistrate’s Court said: “Police received a call from the victim saying there was a man kicking his door and he was being threatened by the defendant telling him ‘I don’t care if you’re gay, I’m going to stab you and shoot you’.
“Before police officers arrived, the defendant climbed up the drain pipe, got inside a bathroom window and grabbed Mr Thake round the throat.”
Smith had also attempted burglary at Summerfield Lodge Veterinary Surgery and Durnell Marketing while he was on bail. He was charged with a total of five offences and plead guilty to all.
He has been jailed for 160 days.
