Thug with "flagrant disregard for people or property" is jailed

Watch more of our videos on Shots! 
and live on Freeview channel 276
Visit Shots! now
A young man whom Wigan magistrates say has a "flagrant disregard for people and property" has been given a six-month jail term for threatening unlawful violence.

Callum Hugill, 23, of Back Market Street in Leigh, appeared before the bench to change a previous not guilty plea to guilty on a charge concerning threats on March 9 last year.

Read More
Friends of murdered Wigan dad Christopher Hughes pay tribute and celebrate his n...

The offence in turn put him in breach of a conditional discharge the court had previously handed down for being armed in Wigan town centre with a knife also in March 2022.

As well as the prison sentence he has to pay £154 to victim services.