A HOSPITAL order has been given to a man who stood outside a police station and threatened to kill officers.
Muqaddar Ishrat, 36, was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court on Wednesday (July 24) for one count of malicious communications.
The court that on July 16 last year, he made a call to 111 outside Abingdon Police Station and threatened to kill police officers.
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He was detained and arrested before later being transferred into hospital care.
Due to his diagnosis of schizophrenia, Judge Maria Lamb activated section 47 of the Mental Health Act, which means if you're serving a prison sentence, the prison can send you to a hospital for treatment.
As he is already in hospital, he will remain there for the foreseeable future, the court heard.
During the sentencing, it was heard that Ishrat had stopped outside Abingdon Police Station in Colwell Drive, Abingdon at 4.30pm on July 16 last year.
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He picked up the station phone outside the building which connects to a 111 operator.
During the phone call, he demanded that the police station gets shut down as it’s an ‘illegal organisation’ and threats were made towards officers.
Ishrat said they would ‘get decapitated’. When asked if needed police help, Ishrat responded: “I’m going to kill them, I’m literally going to kill them.”
He was described by the phone operator as ‘rambling’.
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Officers from the station then attended the phone by Ishrat had left, he was later identified close by through CCTV comparisons.
As officers tried to detain Ishrat, he claimed he had two weapons in his rucksack which turned out to be metal tubes.
When he tried to reach for these, Ishrat was tasered and arrested.
At first, he was taken to HMP Bullingdon before later being transferred to a hospital in Norwich.
Defending Ishrat, his barrister Peter De Feu said: “He was really unwell at the time he committed this offence when he went to the police station and sending that unusual message.”
He added that Ishrat plans to appeal the mental health tribunal, stating that in his view, his medication ‘doesn’t help him’ and ‘fundamentally, there’s nothing wrong with him’.
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Sentencing, Judge Lamb said: “Having heard the medical evidence…I’m satisfied you are suffering from the mental disease of schizophrenia.”
It was heard that this offence also put Ishrat, of no fixed abode, in breach of a suspended order made at Cambridge Crown Court about a year ago.
Judge Lamb said it would be ‘unjust’ to activate this so marked it with a nominal £1 fine which would be expunged.
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