Birthday party threats admitted
A man who threatened people at a child’s birthday party at his friend’s home in Rangiora and bit a woman’s hand, has pleaded guilty to three charges at the Christchurch District Court.
Marcus Noel Read Cuthbert, 36, was at the party on December 12 when he took one victim’s son to his van, and then told his mother that the boy wanted to speak to her.
When she was walking to the van Cuthbert grabbed her by the throat, then shoved her in the chest. She ran inside the address, and the second victim came out and spoke to Cuthbert. Cuthbert took an air rifle out of his boot and pointed it at the man.
Cuthbert drove away from the address with the boy in the car but arrived back about five minutes later.
He started arguing with the woman again, who tried to take the keys off him while he was sitting in the driver’s seat. Cuthbert grabbed her hand and bit it, shaking his head from side to side, then drove away again.
The woman suffered chunks of skin missing from her hand, and bruising around her neck and face.
Cuthbert admitted charges of assaulting a woman, assault with intent to injure, and presenting a firearm at a person.
Defence counsel for Cuthbert, Glenn Dixon, requested an alcohol and drug assessment for the sentencing, with a possibility of Cuthbert going from prison to a rehabilitation facility.
Judge Stephen O’Driscoll remanded Cuthbert in custody for sentencing on July 22, and requested a pre-sentence report be prepared.
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