GUILTY PLEAS FROM SERIAL OFFENDER WHO TOLD MAGISTRATES TO SEND HIM TO PRISON

A serial offender who damaged a gate and a drainpipe – and said that the best thing magistrates could do would be to send him to prison – will be sentenced in August. Terence Perkins, of Culver Parade in Sandown, admitted criminal damage when he appeared at the Isle of Wight Magistrates Court on Tuesday (18th June). Prosecutor Lauren Stone told the court that an intoxicated Perkins arrived at his partner’s address in Ventnor – somewhere he knows not to go when he is drunk – on 15th March this year. Perkins, holding a bottle of rum in 1 hand and a bottle of brandy in the other, attempted to get inside the premises before retreating to the nearby bus stop. Despite waiting for the bus, Perkins didn’t flag the bus down as it went past and instead headed toward the property and began to bang on the window. A short while later a neighbour alerted the female that the Police had been called after they had witnessed Perkins cause damage to a drain pipe and the side gate of the property. Perkins has a total of 17 convictions for a total of 31 offences, several of them for criminal damage. Addressing the court himself, Perkins said that ‘probation and inclusion are useless’ and ‘the best thing you can do is to send me to prison’. The case was adjourned until 2nd August to allow an ‘all options’ pre-sentence report to be compiled.