A man who used a chainsaw to threaten police officers after he said he would blow up his bungalow has been warned by a court that he could face eviction. Mansfield District Council sought a possession order last month after Paul Allsop, 52, of Chestnut Grove, Mansfield Woodhouse, was arrested on September 27, 2020, for wielding an axe and chainsaw, damaging a door and making threats to kill police officers.
He was sentenced at Nottingham Magistrates' Court on January 7, 2021, over the incident after pleading guilty at an earlier hearing in November 2020 to causing criminal damage to the door of his council bungalow. He also admitted to using or threatening unlawful violence and was sentenced to a 16-week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, ordered to pay £600 compensation to Mansfield District Council and was given a 12-month community order to include 15 rehabilitation activity requirement days.
The court also ordered that his axe and chainsaw be destroyed. The court heard that Allsop destroyed his own front door because he was angry that police had turned up at his home to switch off his gas supply after he threatened to blow up his home.
