Roofer blames ADHD for smashing up Audi in row over kids
A roofer blamed his ADHD for smashing up the Audi belonging to the grandmother of his daughter. Corey Day claimed the incident happened after the woman had refused to let him speak with his children on the phone.
Day also claimed that while being refused contact on the phone by the woman who was the mother of his ex-partner, he could hear one of his daughters crying in the background. After the call, he went round to the grandmother's house in Earl Shilton, near Hinckley, and smashed the Audi's rear window and two of the side windows of the vehicle.
The incident, which happened just after midday on Wednesday, November 27 last year, was all caught on CCTV. When he was arrested Day, of Clarkson Close, Nuneaton, admitted to criminal damage.
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Prosecutor Sukhy Basi told Leicester Magistrates' Court heard on Wednesday (January 22): "He did give a full account of the incident. He said he has three daughters who were staying with her and she stated he wasn't allowed to talk to them while his daughter was crying in the background. He said he acted in the wrong way."
Mr Basi said the defendant had told the Leicestershire Police officers: "I did it. I shouldn't have done it. I reacted in the wrong way and I shouldn't have done it."
Mr Basi said Day had 21 previous offences on his record including convictions for criminal damage, assaulting an emergency worker and a public order offence.
Day, 32, representing himself in court, told the magistrates that he was a self-employed roofer earning about £200 and £300 a week. He said: "I just acted in the wrong way. I've got ADHD. I apologise. That's all I can say."
The magistrates, who heard the victim was claiming on her insurance for the damage, decided to fine Day £200 and they also ordered him to pay £85 court costs and an £80 victim surcharge.