A Bedminster man who stole from shops and assaulted shop staff and police has been jailed.
Jason Oltey has been addicted to drugs after a troubled start in life, Bristol Crown Court heard.
The 47-year-old father-of-two, of Marksbury Road, pleaded guilty to a catalogue of offences.
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They comprised of:
- assault on November 2 last year
- assault of an emergency worker, driving while disqialified and uninsured on May 29 this year
- theft from a shop and going equipped for theft on June 7 and 8 this year
Judge Michael Longman jailed him for 18 months.
He told Otley: "It was a particularly horrible form of committing the assault on the emergency worker, especially during the pandemic.
"The theft involved planning. The assault was simply vindictive."
Naomi Aylwin, prosecuting, said Otley was banned from the Cotswold Outdoor shop in Broadmead and, when asked to leave, poked the assistant manager in the eye.
When he left he told her: "If I get jailed for this I'll come back and poke out the other eye."
The assistant manager, whose shop Otley had targeted before, left their job as a result.
Miss Aylwin said police stopped banned Otley driving a VW Golf in May and, when detained in the back of a police vehicle, he spat into PC James Kemsley's face, with spittle landing on his eye.
The court heard in June Otley broke into Bristol City Football Club's shop at Ashton Gate and stole £335 worth of hoodies and jogging bottoms.
When he returned the next day he was identified, detained by security and found to have a foil-lined bag as well as a multi-tool and wire cutters.
The court was told he had a plethora of previous convictions for theft and 17 previous convictions for driving while disqualified.
Catnerine Flint, defending, said regarding the assault on the assistant manager: "He was using drugs heavily at the time.
"He has very little memory of what happened."
Miss Flint said her client took drugs from an early age and serious addiction had plagued his adult life.
She said: "He is now in his late 40s.
"He is tired of this lifestyle, he is getting too old for it.
"He want to change and accept help offered to him."
Otley was handed a five-year restraining order to have no contact whatsoever with the assistant manager and not to go to Cotswold Outdoor in Broadmead.
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