A man took an axe into the street before he phoned the police to tell them that if they did not come quickly he would murder his neighbour. police received a phone call from Mathew Pond, 35, telling them he was outside his address in Cotmanhay Road, Ilkeston. in the street with an axe, making various threats as to what he would do if they did not come.
He said the reason he did so was because he was in fear of his own safety after receiving transphobic threats from the man. Derby Crown Court heard how after being released on bail the defendant then began sending racist messages to his landlord and told that victim's father he would "hang him from a tree", Derbyshire Live reports. And that in 2018 the same offender racially abused a police officer who had been called to a bonfire party at the defendant’s mother’s Derbyshire pub.
Steven Taylor, prosecuting, said the first incident took place in Ilkeston on May 27, last year. He said police received a phone call from the defendant telling them he was outside his address in Cotmanhay Road, in the street with an axe, making various threats as to what he would do if they did not come.
