Daniel Thomas Neave: Narraweena man, 26, jailed at home for punching a police officer
A man who belted a police officer in the head and put him in a headlock has avoided jail in a Sydney court. See what sentence he received instead.
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A man who punched a police officer in the face and then put him in a headlock narrowly avoided going behind bars when he appeared in Manly Local Court.
Instead, Daniel Thomas Neave, 26, who was also convicted of drink driving and crashing his car when three times over the legal limit, will spend 12 months in home detention.
Neave will have to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet on his ankle while serving the year-long Intensive Corrections Order in his house at Narraweena.
He had pleaded guilty to one count each of assaulting a police officers and resisting a police officer in execution of their duty.
Neave also pleaded guilty to high range drink driving after blowing 0.152.
The court also heard on Wednesday that he is facing a fresh charge of assault occasioning actually body harm after an allegation he assaulted a woman in Manly late last Saturday night.
That matter will be heard in Manly Local Court on March 14 and he is yet to enter a plea on the charge.
In a facts sheet tendered to court, police stated that two officers went to Neave’s home at 9pm on December 3 2022 to question him about an assault allegation.
Police said Neave struck out with his clenched left fist and connected with the side of a senior constable’s face.
He then put the officer in a headlock and clung onto his neck as the second officer tried to pull him away from his colleague, before the trio fell to the ground.
The second officer received a cut to the webbing between his fingers.
When Neave was in police custody he “verbally abused” and “threatened to kill” officers on a “number of occasions”, the facts sheet stated.
In a separate facts sheet tendered to the court, police detailed Neave’s arrest after he crashed the Mazda 6 sedan he was driving into a parked car on Albert St, Freshwater on the evening of October 8 2022.
The Honda SUV was written off.
Witnesses to the crash flagged a passing police car down when they saw that Neave was drunk, the facts sheet stated.
His licence had been suspended a month prior to the incident.
Magistrate Robyn Denes convicted him on all charges and sentenced Neave to 12 months jail for assaulting police and 12 months for the drink driving charge, to be served concurrently.
She ordered that the jail time be spent in home detention, under an Intensive Corrections Order.
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