Suspected flasher ‘tried to kill police with scissors’ when cornered at home

A constabulary officer’s skull was near exposed aft helium was stabbed 23 times with scissors by a suspected flasher during an arrest.

Body camera footage successful tribunal showed the infinitesimal Kent Police constable Sean Quinn screamed for assistance arsenic accused flasher Robert Jenner, 50, launched a frenzied attack.

A proceedings astatine Maidstone Crown Court connected Tuesday saw the ‘upsetting’ footage of Jenner barricaded successful his level with a sofa, arsenic PC Quinn shouted ‘put those f****** scissors down now’ during the June 15, 2023 attack.

The onslaught lone stopped erstwhile a 2nd serviceman punched him aggregate times, forcing him to driblet the weapon.

Jenner is connected proceedings for wounding with intent and attempted murder, some of which helium denies.

Prosecutor Daniel Stevenson said the Crown’s lawsuit is that Jenner ‘must person been trying to bash much than causing truly superior wounded – helium indispensable person been trying to extremity his (PC Quinn)’s life.

The tribunal heard Jenner had gone to Maidstone constabulary presumption earlier that time to inquire for his antecedently seized see-through covering to beryllium returned.

Officers refused arsenic they believed helium would deterioration them and perpetrate different offence, and Jenner replied: ‘I’m going to portion disconnected present wankers,’jurors were told.

Later that evening, Kent Police received a study of a antheral moving bare successful Mote Park, successful Maidstone, ‘nipping successful and retired of bushes exposing himself to women’.

Officers PC Quinn and PC Ashley Bates believed it to beryllium Jenner, arsenic they had some dealt with him successful the past. They visited his address, astatine which constituent the Jenner stabbed PC Quinn 23 times.

The authoritative said a grade of mean to terrible unit would person been needed to prolong immoderate of the full-depth injuries.

PC Quinn said helium recalled seeing Jenner crouched onto the backmost of the sofa ‘naked’ and ‘quite angry’ aft being capsicum sprayed by a workfellow earlier helium entered his room surviving room. Before helium could talk with him, Jenner ‘launched’ himself towards the officer.

He said determination was nary clip to get retired his constabulary instrumentality arsenic it took spot successful a ‘split second’.

PC Quinn said: ‘I ran towards him, my archetypal thought was: he’s trying to termination maine for immoderate reason. I thought I was not going to dice and get stabbed successful the back, truthful I ran towards him.’

Jenner was aboriginal arrested connected suspicion of attempted murder, astatine which constituent helium said: ‘F*** ohio mate, I didn’t privation this to happen, I didn’t privation it to travel to this.’

Mr Stevenson said Jenner’s defence is that helium was acting to support himself from what helium believed was an ‘unlawful apprehension oregon unlawful entry’ to his flat, and that helium did not mean to termination oregon earnestly injure the officer.

But the authoritative added the pathologist grounds shows the wounds ‘had the imaginable to beryllium fatal’ fixed their proximity to large arteries.

The proceedings continues.

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