A man who assaulted police, flooded a police cell and repeatedly head-butted a wall was convicted and remanded in the Greymouth District Court this week.
Lucas Duncraft of Kaiata will be sentenced on November 18 on charges of intentional damage, resisting a police officer, assaulting police, threatening to injure and interfering with a vehicle. He pleaded guilty to all charges.
On September 25, Duncraft was arrested for breaching his bail by being drunk. When police tried to arrest him he locked his arms to prevent them from putting handcuffs on him.
During the ensuing struggle a window in a neighbour's house was broken. Once at the Greymouth Police Station, Duncraft repeatedly threatened police and,n when locked up in his cell, he repeatedly head-butted a wall. He also flooded the cell by putting his blanket into the toilet.
On September 13, Duncraft was found drunk at a hotel in Greymouth. He managed to unlock an outside door and gained entrance to the property, where he was heard talking to himself by the hotel owner, who called the police.
Duncraft also tried to open the door of a car parked outside the pub. On arrest, he twice told a police officer in the back of the patrol car that he could bite the officer's nose off. He did this twice more before he was restrained against the side of the vehicle. However, he then also kicked an officer in the leg at the police station.