A outdated Derbyshire groundsman, who changed into sacked by the membership, has pleaded responsible to causing criminal ruin after slashing the covers and sabotaging tools in what changed into described as a “revenge attack”
The covers were slashed and liquid poured steady into a blotter’s gas tank at Derbyshire’s 3aaa County Ground • Getty Photos
A outdated Derbyshire groundsman, who changed into sacked by the membership, has pleaded responsible to causing criminal ruin after slashing the covers and sabotaging tools in what changed into described as a “revenge attack”.
Chris Hallam changed into given an eight-week jail sentence, suspended for 365 days, after causing £3000 of ruin on the 3aaa County Ground in Derby.
The incident took put on August 18, hours forward of an principal NatWest Blast T20 match against Worcestershire – Derbyshire received their closing group sport to reach the quarter-finals for the necessary time since 2005. Hallam, 33, changed into caught on CCTV cameras slashing the covers with a knife and pouring liquid into the gas tank of the membership’s blotter machine, weeks after being brushed off.
“We were called to the county ground in Derby by staff at Derbyshire County Cricket Membership who had recognised a man on its CCTV going on to the pitch and using a blade to nick the covers,” A spokesman for Derby police told the Derby Telegraph. “He changed into moreover captured on the footage pouring a liquid in to the gas tank of the blotter machine on the ground.
“At round 3pm on August 20 we arrested Chris Hallam, who had no longer too long ago been brushed off as an employee on the membership, at his unusual office. He changed into puzzled and did now not realise the membership had build in CCTV since he had been brushed off and he changed into charged with criminal ruin.”
Hallam changed into moreover ordered to pay Derbyshire £3000 in compensation and must stare a 12-week curfew. The membership would no longer comment additional on the topic.
