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Stream of obscenities earns St George’s man a month in prison

A 32-year-old man with a history of swearing at police was yesterday jailed for 30 days after he committed the offence again.Michael Douglas was told the sentence would run concurrently with the three-month term he’s already serving for threatening to rip off an officer’s head.Prosecutor Cindy Clarke told Magistrates’ Court that officers received a report of a disturbance in the Dockyard area around 4.30am on June 5.Officers found Douglas standing near a boat slip near Dockyard Pharmacy yelling obscenities, seemingly in an intoxicated state.When the officers approached Douglas, he yelled: “I’m not leaving here until I fight those f*****g Filipinos!“Send me to the gallows. I’m not f*****g leaving! You only want to f*****g arrest me because my name is Michael Douglas!”After numerous warnings from police not to use obscene language, the Narrow Lane, St George’s resident was arrested.Asked yesterday by Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner if he had anything to say, Douglas replied: “I just want to be left alone.”Mr Warner replied: “You need to start leaving other people alone.”He jailed Douglas for 30 days, with the order that it run concurrently with the time he’s now serving.Douglas was jailed following an incident on June 11 at Snorkel Park in Dockyard when he told an officer: “Today is Monday. I guarantee by Wednesday I will rip your f*****g head off.”