MAIDSTONE MAN SENT WOMAN PICTURE OF SHOTGUN, ASSAULTED POLICE AND SAID HE WOULD ‘BOMB CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL’
A jilted ex boyfriend who sent a picture of a shotgun to a woman and threatened to “blast her windows out” will spend more time behind bars.Hayden Day reacted angrily when sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court for a string of offences, including two counts of breaching a non-molestation order, sending communications threatening serious harm and two counts of assaulting an emergency worker.
Prosecutor Katie Doherty told the court how the 28-year-old was subject to an order in March to not contact his former girlfriend, but this was ignored, and just three months later, he created a Facebook account under a different name to message her.
In one message, on May 4, he wrote: “I love you, never forgot that,” while another said: “You leaving the way you did killed me.
To be honest, I was a dog, but just know I will always love you.
Shortly after this, a video was sent to the complainant, telling them: “If anyone is in the road they are getting rammed, watch this.” In a victim impact statement, Day’s former partner said she still felt controlled by the relationship and she “can’t escape” him.
The charge of sending communications threatening serious harm relates to Day’s ex-partner’s friend.
Ms Doherty explained that Day, of Week Street, Maidstone, created another fake Facebook profile, and sent a message to the woman before sending a picture of a shotgun straight after.
The message read: “If you have got her there again, you are...” Another threatening message sent to the woman read: “You don’t want me to turn up at your house, do you, you fat horrible c***.
“I’ll blow your windows out.
Don't make me evacuate your whole block.” Not long after it was reported, Day was in Canterbury, described by the prosecutor as his local town, and had been stopped by police who asked him for his information.
Ms Doherty told the court during Day’s sentencing on Thursday (October 2) how he then gave false details and was allowed to leave.
Shortly after, one of the officers remembered police had been looking for someone called Hayden Day.
After checking their system for a picture of Day, they realised the man they spoke to was him and searched for him to arrest him.
Ms Doherty said Day made several threats to kill and spat at PC Harry Roberts, as well as attempting to bite his finger.
The prosecutor said that after being detained, the Maidstone man also threatened sexual violence, threats to stab, as well as “threatening to bomb Canterbury Cathedral”.
Once put in the van, Day was in a spit hood and placed next to PC James Bath, where he began thrusting his head side to side, striking the officer’s knee in the process.
Recorder Edmund Burge was told how Day had 32 previous convictions for 90 offences since 2009, including robbery, stalking and sending malicious communications.
In mitigation, defence barrister John Fitzgerald labelled the offences as “ugly” but made clear Day gave guilty pleas at the earliest opportunity.
When sentenced by Recorder Burge to two years and three months for the offences, Day, appearing via video link, reacted angrily and stormed up from his chair at HMP Elmley on the Isle of Sheppey, before shouting: “F*** off man, get off my screen.” He is also subject to a restraining order on the two female victims.
