A veteran Derbyshire groundsman, who used to be sacked by the club, has pleaded responsible to causing criminal hurt after slashing the covers and sabotaging instruments in what used to be described as a “revenge assault”
A veteran Derbyshire groundsman, who used to be sacked by the club, has pleaded responsible to causing criminal hurt after slashing the covers and sabotaging instruments in what used to be described as a “revenge assault”.
Chris Hallam used to be given an eight-week penal complex sentence, suspended for one year, after causing £3000 of hurt on the 3aaa County Ground in Derby.
The incident took space on August 18, hours earlier than a well-known NatWest Blast T20 match towards Worcestershire – Derbyshire received their finest group sport to achieve the quarter-finals for presumably the most vital time since 2005. Hallam, 33, used to be caught on CCTV cameras slashing the covers with a knife and pouring liquid into the fuel tank of the club’s blotter machine, weeks after being brushed off.
“We were known as to the county ground in Derby by workers at Derbyshire County Cricket Membership who had recognised a person on its CCTV occurring to the pitch and the utilization of a blade to gash the covers,” A spokesman for Derby police advised the Derby Telegraph. “He used to be also captured on the photographs pouring a liquid in to the fuel tank of the blotter machine on the bottom.
“At round 3pm on August 20 we arrested Chris Hallam, who had no longer too long previously been brushed off as an employee on the club, at his new space of business. He used to be puzzled and did no longer realise the club had installed CCTV since he had been brushed off and he used to be charged with criminal hurt.”
Hallam used to be also ordered to pay Derbyshire £3000 in compensation and must stare a 12-week curfew. The club wouldn’t comment further on the topic.
