A “BORN scrapper” drunkenly sent a threatening email inviting a police officer who had Tasered him to a fight in a car park.

Prosecutor Rosamund Rutter told Newport Crown Court how Karl Hall had been shot with one of the stun guns in November 2016.

Police Constable Sean Meyrick had fired the Taser at him after he had tried to flee the scene of a ruckus in the city centre on a moped.

Miss Rutter said the 24-year-old Hall, of Beatty Road, Ringland, Newport, had made a complaint about the officer, claiming he had used “excessive force” while making the arrest.

The court heard how both had sustained injuries, the defendant having suffered a broken wrist and had spent a few days in hospital.

Hall later pleaded guilty to affray, common assault against PC Meyrick and a driving offence, for which he was sentenced to six months in prison, suspended for 18 months, and ordered to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work.

A formal police investigation into Hall’s allegations against the constable were carried out by Detective Constable Stephen Hayward.

He concluded that PC Meyrick had no case to answer and sent an email to the defendant to tell him of his findings.

Miss Rutter said Hall sent him a reply in which he told him that the enquiry was a “joke” and that the police “thought they own the world” and lived a “cosy” life with “nice wages”.

The defendant wrote: “PC Meyrick went to town on me…I had to stand there and take it like a soldier.”

Hall added he was a “born scrapper” and branded the constable “corrupt” and that he wanted to meet him “without the uniform to have a fight in a car park”.

He told DC Hayward: “He wouldn’t stand a chance. Send me his email or telephone number so that we can have a proper one-to-one.”

Miss Rutter said the police had heard there were “other males who wished to fight PC Meyrick” as a result of his feud with the defendant and a safety plan was implemented because it was thought he was at risk.

Hall pleaded guilty to sending a communication conveying a threatening message which put him in breach of his suspended sentence.

The court heard how he has 16 previous convictions for 25 offences.

Gareth Williams, mitigating, said his client had been “traumatised” during his arrest and has been “Tasered on more than one occasion”.

He added Hall had been drinking when he sent the abusive email and it had been an act of “bravado” rather than one which carried any serious menace.

Judge Christopher Vosper QC told the defendant: “This was a nasty email in which a threat to a police officer, who had only carried out his duty, was made.”

He added that Hall must have caused “distress and anxiety” to PC Meyrick who “does not need that sort of hassle”.

For being in breach of his suspended sentence, the judge ordered the defendant to carry out a further 30 hours unpaid work.

Regarding the latest offence over the malicious email, Hall received a consecutive sentence of four months in prison, suspended for 12 months.

Before he left the dock, the defendant, who was wearing a vest, said to the judge: “Thank you boss.”