A Zimbabwean mental health nurse who threatened his wife with an axe in the UK has escaped jail. Tanyaradzwa Mhangami had sent his par...
A Zimbabwean mental health nurse who threatened his wife
with an axe in the UK has escaped jail.
Tanyaradzwa Mhangami had sent his partner threatening
messages while on a night shift before he arrived home in Clay Pitts, Braintree.
Mhangami armed himself with an axe and chillingly asked his wife ‘you don’t
want me to use this on you, do you?’
According to the Braintree and Witham Times, Mhangami’s partner,
fearing for her life, left the house and called the police. Mhangami was
spotted in an upstairs window with the axe and then appeared at the back of the
house wearing just his boxer shorts and told officers to get out of the garden.
He was then spotted with a six-inch knife and refused to put it down when
directed to by the police.
Officers then decided to ram their way into the home and tasered
Mhangami when he refused to drop the knife.
When he recovered from being stunned Mhangami was aggressive
towards officers, kicking out at the home and when they went to Colchester
Hospital where he also spat at one constable.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard Mhangami had no previous
convictions and had taken too much of his anti-depressant medication at the
time of the incident in August and his own mental health situation had reached
a crisis point.
He plans to report himself to the Nursing and Midwifery
Council. Judge Christopher Morgan handed him a two year jail sentence suspended
for two years after he admitted affray and three assaults on emergency workers.
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