A convicted murderer told a police officer he would ‘make it his life’ to find him and ‘slice his throat’ after he was arrested for a different crime.
Lee Sheehan, 53, was out of prison on licence when the young officer arrested him for another offence.
In retaliation, the former soldier, who served 17 years for killing another man in a brutal attack, made a series of chilling threats to the policeman.
Appearing at Swansea Crown Court in Wales, he pleaded guilty to making threats to kill and to criminal damage.
The court heard he told the officer: ‘The worst thing they are going to give me is three years and I’ll come looking for you and I’ll make it my f***ing life to find you. I’ll remember you believe me.
‘As God is my witness I’ll remember you. I’ll come looking for you and I’ll f***ing find out where you live and I will slice your throat.’
He also made threats to hurt the officer’s family.
He told him: ‘You don’t live far from your job and you probably have a kid or a girlfriend. Well, you should’ve thought of that.’
Prosecutor Georgina Donahue said Sheehan, of Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, made the warnings after the officer put him in the back of a police van.
During the journey, meanwhile, he began twisting the handcuffs he was wearing with force and started biting on the black plastic casing of the cuffs, spitting out small pieces of plastic.
But the officer calmly carried on with the arrest and Sheehan was recalled back to prison on the murder sentence.
Sheehan’s defence lawyer, Alycia Carpanini, said he was remorseful and understood the language he used was not appropriate.
The judge sentenced him to 12 months in prison.
Sheehan, who used to box while serving in the army, was convicted of murder in 2005 and sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 12 years behind bars.
He repeatedly punched and kicked a 47-year-old man, who later died in hospital.
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