A security guard’s fear of death threats from his

A security guard’s fear of death threats from his former best
mate led him to arming himself with a steel cosh.

Donald Belingy (correct) was so terrified of the chilling
messages that he received from his one-time closest friend that
he took up martial arts.

The unnamed man had already run off with father of two of
Belingy’s girlfriends, Snaresbrook Crown Court was told.

Belingy, 29, of the Lansdowne Green Estate, Stockwell,
pleaded guilty to possessing a telescopic cosh as an offensive
weapon.

Prosecuting, Miss Juliet Oliver, said that he had been charged
with the offence after police officers stopped a car in which he was a
rear seat passenger in Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park, on January
11 last year.

Belingy allegedly told cops after they discovered the cosh in
his sports bag: ‘Look I have had a few death threats on me.

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Defending him, Mr Benjamin Squirrell (correct) said that it was
a ‘frequently used blanket phrase of having it for his own protection.

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But counsel explained that several years ago Belingy’s best
friend ran off with with his girlfriend and then ‘started taking her
side of things’ and making the death threats.

‘Excrement was put through his letter box and letters were
written to him in red ink saying: “You are going to get killed”‘.

Mr Squirrell said that Belingy is ‘extremely scared and
terrified’ and wants to move from his current address although since
his arrest ‘the threats and harassment have stopped.

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Counsel added that his fear was so great that he had been
attending self defence classes in the martial art Wing Chung.

Conditionally discharging Belingy for two years, Judge Andrew
Brooks told him: ‘I am not going to repeat what your counsel said to
me.

I accept what he said.

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ENDS