The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
An argument over an air fryer led to a son throwing one at his 70-year-old dad before he bit a police officer on the leg.
Edward Davis (31) was living with his father at Station Approach at the time of the incident triggered after he forgot to put food in the fryer while drunk on October 22.
Now in temporary accommodation he admitted causing damage and assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest when he appeared at Boston Magistrates Court.
Prosecuting, Shelley Wilson said Davis’s father called police after his son had thrown the air fryer at him and also smashed some plates in the kitchen before going to his bedroom.
She said police officers found him there intoxicated, drinking from a flask and described him as ‘obstructive’.
Ms Wilson said that when the officers told him he was being arrested, he smashed a glass on a table and was shouting and struggling.
He also struck one of the officers and bit him on the leg, for which he later apologised.
Mitigating, Helen Coney said Davis’s mental health meant he could not carry out unpaid work nor observe a curfew as he was now in temporary accommodation, having left his father’s address.
She said his relationship with his father had come to an end and that he now planned to get his own accommodation, as he had never been independent.
Davis, who was unemployed and had 26 previous convictions, including assault, was fined £80 for causing the damage and ordered to pay compensation of £50 to each of the police officers.
He was also ordered to pay a total of £85 in court costs.
