Man from Wainfleet took baseball bat to car parked across his drive

​Magistrateshave heard how a Wainfleet man took a baseball bat to a car which had parked across his driveway entrance preventing him getting to hospital.
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Russell Cooney, 43, of High Street, admitted causing damage to an Audi car when he appeared at Boston Magistrates Court.

Marie Stace, prosecuting, said that a lady parked her Audi car in High Street, not on double yellow lines, at 6.15pm on October 18 and went into a nearby property.

She said that a short time later, she heard banging from outside and saw that the windows in her car had been put through, so went outside.

Ms Stace said Cooney went up to her, holding the bat, using an expletive and saying: “You shouldn't have parked here.”

He later told police that he wanted to get to the hospital to see the mental health team.

Mitigating, Helen Coney said Cooney suffered from severe anxiety which caused him to have panic attacks which he coped with by going to the mental health team at the hospital.

She said the double yellow lines stopped just before his driveway started and that he had been trying to get the lines extended.

Conditionally discharging him for six months and ordering him to pay £500 in compensation, the magistrates told Cooney he should call the police if his driveway was blocked in.