An offender who headbutted a police officer and smashed a van window with a metal pole during a "spree of offending" has been jailed.
Hayden Blades demanded money from a man in the presence of children, assaulted police officers and caused damage to a vehicle whilst brandishing a 5ft metal pole in July and August last year. The 26-year-old's spree ended when police went to his home to arrest him and he jumped out of a window before being pepper-sprayed.
Blades, of Penryn Avenue, Murton, appeared at Durham Crown Court on Wednesday via link from HMP Durham to be sentenced for threatening to damage property, affray, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, possession of an offensive weapon, damaging property, and two counts of assaulting an emergency worker.
