Jail for 'goaded' man who beat woman unconscious on Wakefield street
He later threw knives at police during domestic call out
An man who attacked a woman after a group had been goading him has been locked up.
Jamie Lockett punched the woman repeatedly, knocking her unconscious, Leeds Crown Court heard.
He was jailed for almost three years after admitting ABH and affray. He also admitted another affray, threatening to damage property and making threats with and an offensive weapon in a private place.
Prosecutor Emily Jenkins said Lockett and others had been drinking on April 25, 2023, when he was “goaded” by the group on Chantry Croft in Kinsley.
The 36-year-old then attacked one of the group, repeatedly punching to the head and striking her head off the pavement. Others begged him to stop but he ignored them.
She was taken to Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield where it was found she had a 2cm cut to her head while a CT scan revealed a hematoma. She was discharged the next day.
Members of the woman’s family later went to Lockett’s address and he confronted them with knives from the kitchen.
Lockett was on bail for those matters when he got into a argument with his ex partner on April 23 this year after she refused to give him money.
He became abusive and even threatened to “stab up” his mother when his ex partner rang her.
The police were called to the property in South Elmsall and Lockett armed himself with knives and was acting aggressively. He threw the knives at the arriving officers, but luckily they missed.
Pava spray was used but it failed to quell him before he was eventually arrested.
Lockett, of Marton Avenue, Hemsworth, has six previous convictions for 10 offences.
He appeared in court over a video link from HMP Leeds where he was being held on remand.
Mitigating, Robert Mochrie said Lockett had been diagnosed with autism and ADHD and that the others had been “goading” him before the street attack, triggering his violent reaction.
He said that Lockett’s life had been on a “slow decline” and that he took “solace” in alcohol.
The court heard that Lockett had been “bullied for most of his life”.
The judge, Recorder Robert Ward jailed him for 33 months, and gave him a five-year restraining order to keep him away from the woman he attacked on the street.