Man admits assault and threatening person with secateurs outside Bradford College
David Noutch, 31, pleaded guilty to four offences after two people were injured near Bradford College on October 9 last year.
A man has admitted racially aggravated assault and threatening someone with a pair of garden secateurs after an incident outside a West Yorkshire college.
David Noutch, 31, pleaded guilty to four offences after two people were injured near Bradford College on October 9 last year.
He admitted two charges of assault, one of which was racially aggravated, and threatening someone with a pair of garden secateurs.
Noutch, of no fixed address, also pleaded guilty to causing racially aggravated fear/provocation of violence to two people.
The two racially aggravated offences were said to be “based on (the victims’) membership or perceived membership of a particular racial group, namely Pakistani”.
Noutch had been due to go on trial at Bradford Crown Court on Monday, but pleaded guilty on the day of trial, after the charges were amended.
Judge Jonathan Rose, the Recorder of Bradford, remanded Noutch in custody until his sentencing in August, and warned him that a prison sentence was “highly likely”.
At the time of the incident, West Yorkshire Police said they received reports from 9.20am of a man armed with what appeared to be a knife on Great Horton Road near Bradford College.
Two members of the public were injured and taken to hospital for treatment for non-life threatening injuries, while a small gardening tool was seized by officers at the scene.
The man was detained by college security staff and arrested by attending officers, according to police.