Man threatened to cut off social worker's head and put it on a stick

A man threatened to cut his social worker’s head off and put it on a stick in a town centre when he rang a department at a local authority.

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Welshpool Magistrates Court

Luke Danny McEvoy, 21, of Bryn Y Castell, Newtown, phoned Powys County Council’s children’s services department on January 10, ranting to the call handler about his social worker.

He said in the call: “I’m going to kill her and cut her head off and she won’t see it coming.”

He also told the call handler he was going to put her head on a stick the outside council offices in Welshpool.

At Welshpool Magistrates Court on Tuesday, McEvoy admitted sending a public communication of an offensive, indecent, obscene and menacing character.

Prosecutor Helen Tench told the court, that on January 10, a call was received by Powys County Council’s children’s services department from the defendant, who was “ranting” about his social worker.