Suspected flasher ‘tried to kill police with scissors’ when cornered at home

A police officer’s skull was left exposed after he was stabbed 23 times with scissors by a suspected flasher during an arrest.

Body camera footage in court showed the moment Kent Police constable Sean Quinn screamed for help as accused flasher Robert Jenner, 50, launched a frenzied attack.

A trial at Maidstone Crown Court on Tuesday saw the ‘upsetting’ footage of Jenner barricaded in his flat with a sofa, as PC Quinn shouted ‘put those f****** scissors down now’ during the June 15, 2023 attack.

The attack only stopped when a second officer punched him multiple times, forcing him to drop the weapon.

Jenner is on trial for wounding with intent and attempted murder, both of which he denies.

Prosecutor Daniel Stevenson said the Crown’s case is that Jenner ‘must have been trying to do more than causing really serious injury – he must have been trying to end his (PC Quinn)’s life.

The court heard Jenner had gone to Maidstone police station earlier that day to ask for his previously seized see-through clothing to be returned.

Officers refused as they believed he would wear them and commit another offence, and Jenner replied: ‘I’m going to strip off now wankers,’jurors were told.

Later that evening, Kent Police received a report of a man running naked in Mote Park, in Maidstone, ‘nipping in and out of bushes exposing himself to women’.

Officers PC Quinn and PC Ashley Bates believed it to be Jenner, as they had both dealt with him in the past. They visited his address, at which point the Jenner stabbed PC Quinn 23 times.

The prosecutor said a degree of moderate to severe force would have been needed to sustain some of the full-depth injuries.

PC Quinn said he recalled seeing Jenner crouched onto the back of the sofa ‘naked’ and ‘quite angry’ after being pepper sprayed by a colleague before he entered his kitchen living room. Before he could speak with him, Jenner ‘launched’ himself towards the officer.

He said there was no time to get out his police equipment as it took place in a ‘split second’.

PC Quinn said: ‘I ran towards him, my first thought was: he’s trying to kill me for some reason. I thought I was not going to die and get stabbed in the back, so I ran towards him.’

Jenner was later arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, at which point he said: ‘F*** oh mate, I didn’t want this to happen, I didn’t want it to come to this.’

Mr Stevenson said Jenner’s defence is that he was acting to defend himself from what he believed was an ‘unlawful arrest or unlawful entry’ to his flat, and that he did not intend to kill or seriously injure the officer.

But the prosecutor added the pathologist evidence shows the wounds ‘had the potential to be fatal’ given their proximity to major arteries.

The trial continues.

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