Miracle no-one was killed as man hurled tiles from roof, court told
A crowd gathered in a street to egg on a man who was hurling an "avalanche" of tiles from a house roof after police officers tried to arrest him during a party there.
And it was a "miracle" nobody was killed during the incident in Jubilee Drive, Kidderminster, a court was told.
Joshua Trossell, aged 22, made a hole from the loft on to the roof when officers went into the building to arrest him because he was banned from Jubilee Drive as part of bail conditions for other offences.
Trossell, of Drake Avenue, Worcester, was eventually talked down from the roof by a police negotiator. "He was taking tiles and hurling them down," Mr Mark Johnson, prosecuting, told Kidderminster magistrates. "A large collection of police officers and vehicles were down below."
"A number of the officers scattered in order to avoid the hail of debris. It's also clear that a number of police cars were damaged. It's a miracle that someone wasn't killed," added Mr Johnson.
Trossell admitted affray in Jubilee Drive on March 8, damaging the roof of the house, belonging to Wyre Forest Community Housing Group, and indecently exposing himself on the roof.
He was remanded in custody to Worcester Crown Court to be sentenced on May 3.
He also admitted assaulting his ex-partner in a Kidderminster nightclub on January 25, using threatening behaviour towards her and two charges of damaging windows, for which he is due to be sentenced by the magistrates after the crown court hearing.
A case against 22-year-old Ian Moorhouse, of Audley Drive, Kidderminster, who has admitted threatening behaviour and resisting a police officer during the Jubilee Drive incident, was adjourned until April 23.
Mr Fergus Maxwell, defending Trossell, said the tiles had been directed at the police cars rather than the officers.
