The 36-year-old, of Well Road, St Peter Port, had initially been charged with assaulting a police officer in the due execution of his duties before the prosecution accepted his guilty plea to an alternative offence of common assault.
The court was told how officers had attended at the defendant’s home one evening in March last year following a call from a member of the public.
He took a while to answer the door and when he did, he was told that officers wanted to speak to him and his partner separately.
The woman spoke to one officer in the communal hallway outside. When she became upset, it was decided that she would be moved to another location that night.
Turner was reluctant to allow the woman back into the property to collect her belongings.
When he did allow her back in along with his colleague, the other officer put his foot in the door to prevent it from being closed on him.
At that point, Turner stamped on his foot.
In March 2024 Turner had been made subject to suspended prison sentences of three months and two weeks, concurrently, for assaulting a police officer and resisting another in the due execution of his duties following an incident in Red. The latest offence put him in breach of both.
Defending, Advocate Samuel Steel said his client had expressed remorse for actions and recognised that he should not be in this position. It had been a brief single and impulsive act after he had been woken from his sleep. His alcohol consumption that night had led to his emotional volatility.
The neighbour had heard the woman asking to be let back in, as she had forgotten her key to the property, and she was not calling to be let out, he said.
Judge Gary Perry said he had noted the character references submitted on the defendant’s behalf which all said this had been out of character.
But he had behaved like this before after drinking.
‘All you had to do was to comply when the police wanted to get her things and leave,’ he said.
Suspended sentences were not an idle threat, the judge told Turner.
He was jailed for one month for the latest assault and the suspended sentence was activated in full, consecutive, which took the total penalty to one of four months.
