Thug broke window during dispute with neighbour over noisy music – then elbowed a female police officer

Thug Aiden Nicholls elbowed a female police officer in the face while being arrested for causing damage to a house during a dispute with a neighbour.

The 21-year-old had smashed the front window of the property and damaged the front door after the occupants complained about loud music coming from his brother's property.

When police arrived to arrest him, he struggled with officers and injured the PC as she tried to handcuff him – before damaging the window of a police car.

Now he has been ordered to pay £800 in addition to receiving a suspended prison sentence.

North Staffordshire Justice Centre heard Nicholls was at his brother’s house in Vickers Road, Chell, where music was being played so loudly that it was ‘shaking the walls’, resulting in a confrontation with the neighbours.

Prosecutor Stuart Quinn said: “There was a dispute with the neighbours about the volume of the music being played at the defendant's brother's property.

"The defendant went next door and was verbally abusive to the occupant and his wife.

“He kicked the front door on two occasions and sat on the victim’s car, bouncing up and down on the bonnet. He then threw a bottle at the house, smashing the front living room window.

“Police attended and he was arrested. The female officer said as she went to lock her first cuff on the defendant’s arm he lifted his arm and elbowed her in the face with some force.”

The officer reported having to draw her PAVA spray because of Nicholls’s ‘increasingly aggressive manner’.

Nicholls, of Hollins Crescent, Talke, pleaded guilty to three counts of criminal damage and a further charge of assaulting an emergency worker. He had no previous convictions.

The defendant told a probation officer that he had resisted arrest because the handcuffs were too tight and the assault on the police officer was an accident.

He also claimed the neighbours had been playing loud music which had disturbed children sleeping at his brother's house.

Mike Kimberley, mitigating, said: “This was out of character. He says derogatory comments were made about his partner and the red mist came down. He reacted.

“He admits he resisted arrest and struggled in the police car but when he arrived at the Northern Area Custody Facility he was compliant. He has shown genuine remorse.”

District Judge Kevin Grego handed Nicholls a six-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, with a 15-day rehabilitation activity requirement. He must complete 80 hours unpaid work.

Nicholls was ordered to pay £500 compensation to the injured police officer, plus a total of £300 for the damage he caused. A restraining order prohibiting him from going to Vickers Road or contacting the victim of the criminal damage was also imposed.

District Judge Grego said: “The female officer was just doing her work. There was no reason for you to behave in the way you did.”

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