A DRUG dealer fought with dock officers and tried to leap out of the secure dock at York Crown Court when he was jailed.

Sean Simon Stack said: “I am not going” when one officer tried to handcuff him so he could be led to the court cells.

He attacked the officer, jumped on to the wooden dock surround, grabbed the top of the security strengthened glass above it and kicked the officer repeatedly with his feet while pulling himself up by his hands.

But the dock officer kept hold of him despite being hit, until four more officers, summoned by a courtroom alarm button, raced up the dock stairs.

It took all five officers to subdue and handcuff Stack before carrying him down the steps to the court cells.

The Recorder of York, Judge Stephen Ashurst, took time out for several minutes after the fight so that he could check the officers’ welfare.

He also ordered Stack to appear before him today – via video link from prison – to receive his punishment for contempt of court.

The violence began after he sentenced Stack, 23, of The Village, Stockton-on-the-Forest to eight months in jail for possessing cannabis with intent to supply it to others a year after he was given a suspended prison sentence for a similar offence. 

“It is clear that you have been back to your old tricks,” the judge said.

As he listened inside the dock, the walls of which reach well above head height, Stack, who had pleaded guilty, unzipped his jacket and the top beneath it. 

When the dock officer asked for his hands so that he could be handcuffed, he held them down by his sides.

Then he attacked the officer.

But as Stack fought past the officer and on to the dock wall, the alarm was sounded, a probation officer ran to alert security staff and court staff phoned for reinforcements.

He grabbed the top of the wall, but was eventually pulled off by the officers summoned from the court cell block.

Prosecuting, Paul Nicholson said police caught Stack with 13g of cannabis and £143 in cash when they stopped his car in Healey Grove, off Malton Road, York, for erratic driving. 

Texts on his mobile phone showed he had been dealing.

For him, Mark Partridge said since his arrest he had given up drugs and alcohol altogether.