Blackpool man, 28, forced to wait 3 months to learn his sentence at Preston Crown Court for violent offences
Yakub Mire was released on bail at Preston Crown Court this week after his sentencing hearing was adjourned until September.
A 28-year-old Blackpool man has been told he will have to wait almost three months to hear if he faces jail after appearing before a judge charged with violent offences.
Yakub Mire was released on bail at Preston Crown Court this week after his sentencing hearing was adjourned until September.
Mire, of Grasmere Road in the resort, has been convicted of affray, assault causing actual bodily harm and possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.
But a judge asked for a psychiatric report to be prepared before the court can decided how best to deal with him.
Recorder Michelle Brown was told that the man he is said to have assaulted is also a co-defendant in the affray charge and the prosecution want the two men to be sentenced at the same time.
Because the case against the other man had been delayed, partly because he failed to attend a magistrates court hearing, the earliest date the two could be sentenced would be September 18.
Mire‘s barrister Amy Weir told the judge that her client had a history of involvement with the psychiatric services and that could have an impact on how he is sentenced.
She said that while it didn’t excuse his violent behaviour it may go some way to explaining it. So she asked for the sentence hearing to be adjourned until September to allow a full report to be prepared.
Recorder Brown agreed to delay it until then “to allow both men to be sentenced together”.
She imposed strict bail conditions banning Mire from making any contact with his co-accused or to go near the location where he lives.
She said she was putting the case off until September 18 “to allow the defendant (Mire) to get a psychiatric report which may assist the sentencing judge”.
But she warned Mire that if he did not also cooperate with the probation service to arrange a pre-sentence report for the court he would not be given another chance.
“I have heard what the probation service has said about your behaviour at a previous interview when you became aggressive and the interview had to be terminated.
“I have to warn you that you have to attend the psychiatric meeting and for a pre-sentence report you are to attend that meeting also.
“If you fail to do so the court on the next occasion won’t give you any further chances.”