Jailed: Man in decapitation threat with chainsaw
A man who wielded a chainsaw and threatened to cut off another man's head has been jailed for nine months.
Andrew Jones, 27, of Wern, Chirk, appeared via a live television link from Stoke Heath custody centre and admitted a charge of threatening a man in Market Street, Llangollen.
Mold Crown Court heard that the man who was being threatened by the chainsaw was curled up outside a shop. He was never traced.
Jones, was jailed for nine months – to be served consecutively to a four-and-a-half-year prison sentence imposed at Carlisle Crown Court for a cocaine offence.
Judge Rhys Rowlands said that the incident would have been absolutely horrific for those who witnessed it and that it would not be tolerated.
Co-defendant Michael Taylor, 27, of Sixth Avenue in Llay, near Wrexham, admitted possessing the chainsaw in Market Street. He was jailed for six months.
Prosecutor David Mainstone said that a man in his 60s heard shouting in the Market Street car park at about 9.40pm on May 28. He looked out and saw three men. One of them, said to be Jones, was being aggressive.
The witness went to check on his car, but as he returned to his flat heard the sound of a chainsaw starting up. Fearing for his own safety he alerted police.
Ceri Jones, for Jones, said it was out of character. There had been some trouble that night, nothing of a criminal nature, and in the heat of the moment he took possession of the chainsaw.
