Man in custody ‘to protect public’

Tuesday 23rd August 2011, 3:00PM BST.

Le Lay appeared in the Magistrate's Court yesterday

A MAN has been remanded in custody to protect the public after a stand-off with armed police just a day after being sentenced for similar offences.

Shawn Le Lay (40) appeared in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday and admitted assaulting a neighbour at his home in Grande Route des Sablons, Grouville, on Friday and possessing a knife as an offensive weapon on Longbeach on the same date.

The offences, for which he will be sentenced in two weeks’ time, put him in breach of a nine-month probation order handed down by the same court on Thursday.

On that occasion he had admitted making menacing calls to the police on 12 July, during which he threatened to ‘rip people’s heads off’, and possessing an imitation firearm with intent to resist arrest on 13 July.

• Full report in Tuesday’s JEP

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