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Jun 2023
Man with 'flagrant disregard for people' jailed for crimes in Harrogate
A man has been jailed for a year for a string of offences in Harrogate, including threatening to kill a policeman.
Christopher Layton, 36, admitted carrying out the threat at Harrogate police station on June 7 this year.
He was sentenced to 26 weeks in prison for that offence when he appeared in front of magistrates in York on Tuesday.
Layton, of no fixed abode, received other consecutive custodial sentences for further crimes.
They included assaulting the same police officer and assaulting a man on Parliament Street in Harrogate on June 18. He also threatened police and paramedics.
Layton, who was subject to supervision requirements imposed after a previous jail sentence, also pleaded guilty to threatening a man on Queens Road in Harrogate on June 7, which court documents said "was motivated by hostility towards persons who are of a particular sexual orientation".
The documents also said the offences were so serious because "the defendant has a flagrant disregard for people and their property" and involved attacks on emergency workers.
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