59-year-old Mark Saurin has been charged with aggravated burglary and possession of a knife following an incident in Ryde on Saturday evening.
As previously reported by Island Echo, Police descended on Melville Street in the town at 18:15 to reports of a man waving a knife around in the street.
Officers detained Saurin, of Melville Street, on suspicion of affray.
Now, Hampshire Constabulary has confirmed that the 59-year-old has been charged with 2 different offences in relation to this incident.
Saurin has been charged with aggravated burglary and possession of a knife blade/sharp pointed article in a public place.
He appeared at Portsmouth Magistrates Court this morning (Monday) where he was remanded into custody.
He will next appear at Portsmouth Crown Court on Monday 26th September.
That’s right, send offenders to the mainland to be sentenced. If they attend court here, all they get is a slap on the wrist and a suspended sentence and they’re back home by teatime!
No deterrent at all and it’s all a laugh to them at the tax payers expense.
All the courts in the country follow the Sentencing guidelines as laid out by the Sentencing Council.
Now i wonder what the hard luck story will be.
Give the defence a fair chance, they have to consider whether unhappy and deprived childhood, misuse of substances, mental health issues or just plain unhappy would run the best at the trial.
Wait for the bleeding heart parents of wrong un’s to defend the rubbish.
IMO either mental, so needs locking up, or evil, so needs locking up.
Both likely to be incurable so, lock it up for as long as you can find room in our non Brit filled jails now.
Most 59 year olds are beyond the limits of parental control.
As he is 59 years old it might be difficult for his parents to exercise proper control.
So he’s free until Sept?? Disgusting So is he not from the island?? Ban him if he’s not pathetic, what’s happening to our law system?
Yeah, it’s terrible! Free until September…… except that he was remanded into custody?!