A VIOLENT man who ‘couldn’t care’ who he ventilates his violence on pushed his way into a Rugby family’s home brandishing a dumb bell bar and threatened to smash up the house.
Fortunately, hooded Amandeep Singh Sandhu was pushed back out before he could carry out his threat.
Sandhu, 23, of Rosewood Avenue, Rugby, pleaded guilty at Warwick Crown Court to charges of possessing an offensive weapon and affray.
But despite the judge’s concern that deep down he was ‘quite a violent man,’ Sandhu was given a six-month jail sentence suspended for two years, with a rehabilitation activity for 15 days.
Prosecutor Graeme Simpson said that in February a woman was at her Rugby home with her husband and 12-year-old son when there was a knock at the door.
Assuming it was her older son, she opened the door, only to be confronted by Sandhu, with his hood up and brandishing a metal dumb bell bar.
Before she had time to react, he began demanding to know where her older son was, claiming that he owed him £3,000 and threatening to smash up the house.
He pushed his way past her into the hallway, continuing to make threats, but she shouted for her husband, who managed to push Sandhu back out and shut the door.
Sandhu passed the bar to another man who had waited outside, and that man ran off with it while Sandhu remained at the house, ranting, before he also left.
When he was later arrested, Sandhu admitted going to the house, but denied going in or having a weapon.
Mr Simpson said as a result of the incident the woman, who has a weak heart, suffered a great deal of distress.
And her husband described having to constantly reassure her and their young son, who feared Sandhu would hurt him or his parents, that they had nothing to fear.
Mr Simpson added that Sandhu had a previous conviction for battery, as well as cautions for threatening behaviour and having an offensive weapon.
Sharon Bahia, defending, said that since the offence, in April, Sandhu was given a suspended sentence for theft from a dwelling, and is complying well with it.
“I ask Your Honour to give him a final chance. I accept that these offences cross the custody threshold, but I seek to persuade Your Honour to suspend any sentence.”
She said that since the death of his father, Sandhu has become ‘the sole carer’ for his mother, who has health and mental health problems.
Sentencing Sandhu, Recorder Edward Coke told him: “You have a history, when you want to recover property, of being violent. I refer to your ex-partner when you went along and wanted to recover some items of jewellery.
“I am worried that deep down you are quite a violent man, and you couldn’t care who the violence is ventilated on.”
