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Five years' jail for Otley man who bit off nurse's ear
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| Jason Robinson |
AN Otley man who attacked five nurses, biting the ear off one of them, has received a five-year sentence.
Jason Robinson, 19, carried out the attacks over a two-month period whilst he was in the medium secure psychiatric unit, the Humber Centre in Cottingham.
He targeted five nurses in four different attacks between March and April last year.
Robinson, of Weston Park View, Otley, bit the ear off one male nurse, gouged another nurse in the eye, threw coffee over another male nurse, punched and kicked one in the face and twice bit the arm of another.
He pleaded guilty at Hull Crown Court yesterday to wounding, two assaults occasioning actual bodily harm and three common assaults on staff at the centre.
Prosecutor Helen Hendry said: "His acts were premeditated, callous and violent. He would make threats and later carry them out."
The honorary Recorder of Hull and the East Riding, Judge Michael Mettyear, jailed him for four years and gave him a one-year extended sentence making five years.
He said: "Your behaviour in custody has been very bad. The offences were committed against people trying to help you and is an aggravating feature of the case. Quite clearly you have severe behavioural and mental problems."
When he attended the Humber Centre he was described by one psychiatrist as having challenging behaviour' and was difficult to handle'.
He would destroy furniture in his room and threaten staff. But it was on March 5 last year that he tried to gouge the eye of a male charge nurse who had put him into a secure room after he had destroyed some furniture.
He also attacked a female nurse in the same incident and she suffered a swollen eye and hurt her shoulder.
On April 20 he threw coffee at two nurses and began punching and kicking them. They suffered injuries to their face and stomachs.
The next day he assaulted ward nurse Keith Morris and tore part of his ear off.
He hit him and then bit his ear, ripping it off and spat it back at him.
Mr Morris was taken to Hull Royal Infirmary but surgeons were unable to reattach his ear and he will be permanently scarred.
On April 30 he again became violent and bit another nurse twice on the arm.
His barrister Austin Newman said: "The tragedy is this young man clearly needs help."
He had previously worked in the White Hart in Pool-in-Wharfedale and his barrister told the court there was a job waiting for him on his release.
9:19am Thursday 15th May 2008
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