TEENAGER JAILED FOR 'IMMATURE' DRINK-FUELLED BARBECUE ROW
A drunken teenager’s petulant and increasingly violent behaviour during a barbecue at a friend’s home landed him behind bars.Kai Jackson began drinking heavily after he and his girlfriend arrived at the host’s home in West Rainton, at 2.30pm on Sunday, June 29.
Durham Crown Court was told that after about 45 minutes, Jackson became argumentative when he was told people might think him “clumsy” after he opened a fridge door in the kitchen and an item fell out and smashed.
Jackson told his partner not to “talk down” to him, which shocked her, so she went outside, “to get some space”.
But when he went outside, he accused her of talking about him and laughing at him.
He told her their relationship was over, so she went to clear up the mess.
Another woman present offered Jackson some food and he responded by calling her “a slag”.
Although the woman tried to calm him down, he reacted by smashing a bottle.
He then also accused his partner of also being “a slag”, so she went back out into the garden and Jackson emerged and grabbed her hand, thrusting it against a wall.
This caused her to drop a glass she was holding, resulting in bruising and swelling of her hand.
Chris Baker, prosecuting, said Jackson stormed out of the garden, but later returned to find his partner in the kitchen, where he spat at her and headbutted her, while also pushing and aiming a punch at a woman from a nearby house who came to see what was happening.
Jackson’s partner was taken to hospital for treatment, and he was caught after a short chase when police arrived.
In custody, he was overheard asking his grandmother to persuade his partner not to press charges, even offering to pay her to drop them.
The next day, his grandmother called her to ask her not to pursue charges, claiming Jackson couldn’t remember anything.
Nineteen-year-old Jackson, of the Aged Miners’ Homes, Sherburn Hill, admitted assault causing actual bodily harm and doing an act intended to pervert the course of justice.
He had previously received a community order for assaults on emergency workers and a public order offence 13 days earlier.
Judge Richard Clews sentenced Jackson to 36 weeks in a young offenders’ institution, to be served immediately, with restraining orders for three years against both his ex-partner and the neighbor.
