A rowdy man who got drunk at a birthday party was arrested after he carried his four-year-old nephew into the path of a police van and racially abused an officer. Daniel Jones from Cardiff had downed seven pints of beer and an array of shots before launching an unprovoked attack on police while carelessly carrying the young boy in his arms.
Declan McSorley, mitigating, said Jones had attended his sister's 30th birthday party at Llanishen rugby club on October 7 last year and drank more than on any other occasion in the past five years. The solicitor told Cardiff Magistrates' Court that the party had a 'constant flow of cheap shots' and that the 28-year-old engaged in freely drinking Sambuca and other 'coloured drinks', Wales Online reports.
Police had attended Ty-Glas Avenue after reports of youths smoking cannabis in the venue's car park and tried to leave after dealing with the issue. However, Jones stepped in front of their van while holding his young nephew and launched a tirade of racial abuse at an officer with a 'blatant disregard for the child's safety'.
