Mentally ill Sunderland man spread faeces across police cell walls - after accusing stranger of being paedophile

Billy Carter, 35, of Dinsdale Street South, Ryhope, was also put on an 18-month community order and fined £120 when sentenced at South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court.

He had appeared at the same court on Monday, February 3, to admit two charges of using threatening behaviour, two of criminal damage of under £5,000, and failing to surrender to custody, on October 15, and the case was adjourned for reports.

Carter has now been urged by magistrates to get his act together, with Stephen Bradley, chair of the bench, telling him: “Everybody out there is trying to help Billy Carter. Billy Carter has got to help himself.

“There’s somebody going to be holding his hand for the next 18 months, they are going to ensure that everything that comes your way is right and proper.”

Carter’s original court hearing was told he was heard shouting, “I’m going to blow the place up” by a woman at home in Dinsdale Street at 12.15pm on Saturday, June 1.

He was arrested and was clearly under the influence of an intoxicant, said prosecutors.

On June 18 Carter approached a couple as they walked near Sunderland Royal Hospital and accused the man of being a paedophile.

Unemployed Carter also ranted, ‘I’ll rip your heads off, I’ll put it on the internet’, it was said.

His first hearing heard he had 63 convictions from just over 100 previous offences, and that he had defaced cell walls with faeces when arrested on suspicion of the stated offences in question.

In his defence, the court was told Carter had significant mental health issues, as well as those around drink and drugs, but had started to engage well with treatment services.

His solicitor, Ian Martin, had told magistrates his client had been unwell mentally for a “very long time” and when he committed the offences was “manifestly unwell”.

At his latest hearing magistrates also ordered him to pay a £90 victim surcharge and £85 court costs.