A VIOLENT offender will spend 42 weeks in prison after he carried out a string of unprovoked attacks and threatened to kill a man.

Damien John Chorley, of Winding Way, Bemerton Heath, was sentenced at Salisbury Magistrates’ Court on Monday, November 25 after he pleaded guilty to six offences.

The court heard that Chorley, 39, carried out an unprovoked attack on a man and threatened to kill him on Saturday, November 16.

Court documents describe Chorley's threat as a “totally disproportionate” response to a verbal remark made “within a domestic environment”.

Chorley – who has a “flagrant disregard for people and their property” – caused criminal damage worth £350 to furniture and other items belonging to another victim and damage worth £150 to a Wiltshire Police prisoner transport van on the same day.

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He was sentenced for two other unprovoked assaults: On July 31, 2023, he attacked a separate man, a catering company worker, causing him actual bodily harm, and he assaulted another separate victim in Salisbury on January 15, 2024, by beating him.

Magistrates handed him a 23-week prison sentence for one assault and a further 19 weeks for his threat to kill another victim.

He will concurrently serve a series of sentences ranging from one to 10 weeks in length for his other offences and because he had been serving suspended sentences when he attacked two of the victims, which have been activated.

Chorley must pay £350 in compensation for the criminal damage he caused to one of the victim's belongings and £650 to the Crown Prosecution Service.