Councillor Simon Arthur sent to prison after attacking mum
A COUNCILLOR who assaulted his 87-year-old mother and then brandished a kitchen knife at police officers has been jailed for four months.
Simon Hugh Arthur, 44, admitted the assault on his elderly mother, Isabelle Arthur, after he had tried to drag her from the car parked outside her home on Summerland Lane in Newton.
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Simon Arthur
In a statement read to Swansea Magistrates' Court Mrs Arthur said she regularly went to a Mumbles car park to avoid going home, and had even slept there overnight previously because she was afraid to go home to the home she shared with her son, who is a Mumbles community councillor.
On July 21 she had been parked outside her home at 11.30pm, when Arthur came out and tried to pull her from her car, telling her she would "burn in hell" and "suffer in the afterlife".
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He had grabbed her stick from her, and she had crawled into the road hoping to attract the attention. A passing female motorist called police, and Arthur later attempted to lunge at officers with a kitchen knife after they arrived, prompting one to subdue Arthur by punching him in the face.
At an earlier hearing, it was revealed Arthur had admitted to police he had punched his mother on a number of previous occasions. And he was said to have told officers on the night that "it is all her fault" and that she had been "dragging him down through life".
Arthur later claimed to have no memory of the attack and said he had drunk more than a bottle of wine.
Nick Devonald, defending, said that two weeks in custody was "beneficial" in helping Arthur reflect on what happened.
"Mr Arthur spent the first week reflecting on himself and his own position, and what had led him to be in that position and what he should do," he said.
"He spent the second week on reflecting what his actions had done to others."
Sentencing him to four months for each offence, to run concurrently, chairman of the bench Elliot Griffiths also made him subject of an indefinite restraining order, preventing him living with his mother after release.
Comments
by JerryLew
Tuesday, August 07 2012, 5:49PM
“Cheers Dai
http://tinyurl.com/8f3wcpz
10. EXPENSES AND ALLOWANCES
There may be rules enabling you to claim expenses and allowances in connection
with your duties as a Community Councillor or a Committee or Sub-Committee
member, and these rules must be scrupulously observed.
Looking in more detail this looks to be a Scottish council so rules may be different.
Anyway we are starting to go off the article with expenses and freemasons.”
by Dai_Chotomy
Tuesday, August 07 2012, 4:52PM
“My entry "most employees of Local Authorities reuse to" looks to be ever so slightly Freudian, it should have read, "most employees of Local Authorities refuse to".”
by Dai_Chotomy
Tuesday, August 07 2012, 4:44PM
“Community Councillors receive absolutely no remuneration or expenses whatsoever. They are at the lowest level of local government with little or no authority. Although they carry the courtesy title of Councillor many do not use it, and most employees of Local Authorities reuse to.”
by hacker_jack
Tuesday, August 07 2012, 4:11PM
“Freemasonry is about making good men better, and his type would NEVER see the inside of a lodge.
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I fear that past indiscretions by members of lodges will go against you there. I'm sure that they bad eggs are a small minority indeed, but far too often things have been brushed under the carpet purely because of membership of such organisations.
And yes I know of several such instances.”
by GretaCarbo
Tuesday, August 07 2012, 4:10PM
“mattevans72
Quote: 'Freemasonry is about making good men better, and his type would NEVER see the inside of a lodge.'
Kenneth Noye - http://tinyurl.com/942hsrq”
by odinhouse
Tuesday, August 07 2012, 4:03PM
“What a idiot ,,, "Should the article say ''''' EX Councillor , as now he has a criminal Record, and that means he can't be a Councillor any longer...? what a swine he is by assaulting his own Mother that brought him into this world,"”
by kingcurt
Tuesday, August 07 2012, 3:50PM
“Seriously though, this person may have undiagnosed mental problems. Many people go for years with such disorders and never find proper help. Perhaps this person is one of those, perhaps not. How can we judge?”
by kingcurt
Tuesday, August 07 2012, 3:45PM
“44! It's a tough old life in politics!! Should have gone into banking instead.”
by mattevans72
Tuesday, August 07 2012, 3:29PM
“Trunkles3, what exactly do you mean by your comment "Funny handshake too"?
If you are insinuating that this animal is a Freemason, then you are very, very far from the truth.
Freemasonry is about making good men better, and his type would NEVER see the inside of a lodge. And if you are also insinuating that Freemasony is an old boys club that promotes it's own, you are again very far from the truth. That sort of behaviour was thrown out a long time ago and is grounds for expulsion now.
I suggest you visit the Grand Lodge website ( http://tinyurl.com/yz4ybn2) and see how much Freemasonry does for charity, both home and abroad before making your throwaway and misinformed comments on a public website.”
by JerryLew
Tuesday, August 07 2012, 2:41PM
“Philosoraptor
Bill Murray - 62 years of age next month.
Woman Beater pictured above - 44 years of age.
SWEP try and get before and after pics in a few months time.”