ST HILLAIRE: ‘WHO LOVES YA BABY?’ LOLLIPOP ROW MAN FACES JAIL
A Snapchat fan who threatened to ‘shank’ a homeless man for refusing to pose sucking a lollipop is facing jail.
Reiss St Hilaire, 20, and his laughing pals slipped the confection into sleeping Marc Frisk’s mouth and started taking pictures to post on social media.
When Mr Frisk woke up and angrily objected, St Hilaire told him: ‘Come on, it’s for Snapchat’.
St Hilaire, who was heavily drunk after his 20th birthday celebrations, then stole the homeless man’s hat and told him: ‘Do you know who I am? I will shank you’.
When he was arrested, St Hilaire had the broken neck of a cherry wine drink in the pocket of his body warmer.
St Hilaire was found guilty of abusive and threatening behaviour and possession of an offensive weapon after a two-day trial at the Old Bailey.
He will be sentenced later this month.
The drunken lout with his brother Pierre and his cousin Ryan at 4am on July 6 last year when they came across Mr Frisk sleeping in a doorway in Fenchurch Street, central London.
‘They were sufficiently inebriated to think that it might be highly amusing to torment him by forcing a lollipop into his mouth and taking a Snapchat photo of him’, said prosecutor Richard Bendall.
‘A pretty mean minded and unpleasant thing to do but there we are.
‘Mr Frisk awoke when he felt something being pushed into his mouth – he looked to see three males and told them to stop.
‘They were saying to Mr Frisk: “Come on, it’s for Snapchat.”‘
The homeless man angrily objected to the photo being taken, so St Hilaire retaliated by snatching a hat from his possessions and running away.
When he caught up with St Hilaire, he demanded to know where his hat was.
But St Hilaire replied: ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about. Do you know who I am? I will shank you?’
Mr Frisk, thinking St Hilaire was about to pull out a knife, backed off then reported the incident to a nearby police officer.
‘The officer noticed that the defendant now had his right hand in the pocket of his body warmer’, said Mr Bendall.
‘He took hold of his right wrist and removed his hand from his pocket.
‘As his hand came out he was holding his wallet, headphones, and also a broken neck of a bottle.’
He said St Hilaire, who was ‘highly intoxicated’, was arrested after the incident, but claimed Mr Frisk had been the aggressor.
In court St Hilaire tried to pin the blame on his brother and cousin, saying he had been around the corner urinating when the incident happened.
He claimed his finger had got caught in the cherry wine bottle, and it had shattered in his pocket by accident.
St Hilaire, of Gunton Road, Clapton, east London, denied using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent, and possession of an offensive weapon.
He is due to be sentenced on February 24.
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