Police happy 'aggressive bully' who held knife to man's throat and throttled ex is jailed
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The court heard that Maylott, who was with a knife-wielding accomplice, had targeted the wrong person at an address in Sedgley Close, Southsea, on July 24. He threw an innocent man onto a car bonnet as he was cleaning the vehicle before demanding drugs and cash while holding a machete to the victim’s throat. Maylott, of Wynton Way, Fareham, then grabbed his ex-partner’s throat a week later.
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Hide AdFollowing the sentence, police staff investigator Sarah Hills said: ‘This was a shocking display of violence by an aggressive bully. We take a zero tolerance approach to all violence, especially offences that occur in a domestic setting, and we work hard as a police service to target those who carry weapons.
‘Maylott clearly poses a danger to the public and I hope the communities of Portsmouth and Fareham can be reassured he is now in prison.’
Judge Richard Shepherd said ‘vicious’ Maylott committed the offences during a ‘spiral’ where ‘everything was going wrong’ amid heavy drug use and had underlying mental health difficulties. Maylott, who admitted attempted robbery, possession of a weapon, common assault, criminal damage and a public order offence, was jailed for five and a half years. A restraining order of five years was also imposed.