Appearing from custody, Nico Dormer, 35, of no fixed address, admitted two counts of sending threatening messages.
Crown Advocate Chris Dunford told the court that on 15 May this year another party had posted the defendant’s photograph on the Predators in Guernsey Facebook page with a warning that he could be dangerous to others.
This led to the defendant sending abusive messages to the mother of a woman that was known to him, including a screenshot of a message he had sent to another man in which he had made threats to go out and stab white people and said everyone would regret it.
A call was made to the Joint Emergency Services Control Centre, which led to armed police officers being called out.
After initially being unable to find him, they eventually located him at a property in Vauvert at 3.30pm on 16 May and he was arrested on suspicion of making threats to kill. He claimed other people had made threats to kill members of his family.
He had previous convictions, the last of which was for harassment and assault in 2020.
Defending, Advocate David Domaille said this had been a single message, which his client had then followed up.
He acknowledged that it was inappropriate and that the court would see it as disturbing and degrading.
While living in the UK and, to a lesser extent, Guernsey, he had been subject to racial abuse. He currently had no right to remain here and wanted to sort his head out by spending time in custody.
Judge Gary Perry said the defendant had little in the way of mitigation and he had been in trouble on numerous occasions before. While these were serious offences, they were not the most serious, and defendants did not get the chance to choose their own penalties.
Dormer was sentenced to two months in prison, concurrent, for each offence, suspended for two years.
