A Coventry man who violently assaulted two people in the city has been sentenced. Luke Baxter also exposed himself during the incident in Hillfields.
Baxter, 32, was found sitting near Paul Stacey House on Bath Street at around 7.45am on June 9. Two guards tried to move him along, but he pretended to be asleep before looking up and smiling.
He suddenly snapped, shouting ‘f**k off’ at the guards, Warwick Crown Court heard. Security warned that they would call 999 if Baxter stayed, prompting him to go to nearby Thomas King House.
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Baxter gained entry to the building. Prosecutor Christopher Pembridge said the same two guards followed him and asked him to leave the high-rise flats, but he told them he was ‘homeless and freezing.’
Mr Pembridge said Baxter then shouted at the guards and said: ‘I will slice you.’ But he was not believed to be carrying a weapon, Warwick Crown Court heard.
Baxter ‘aggressively’ approached the pair and said: ‘I will f*****g knock you out.’ He then pulled his trousers down and exposed his genitals.
At Warwick Crown Court on Tuesday (November 25), Judge Montgomery KC condemned his threats and behaviour as ‘wholly unacceptable.’ Defending, William Dudley said Baxter had engaged with support programmes and not used alcohol or drugs.
Baxter, from Coventry, pleaded guilty to assault and indecent exposure and was sentenced to 16 weeks in jail. He was released on licence under strict conditions as he had already served more than five months on remand.
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