Teen to police: 'I'll be next Jan Molenaar'

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A Hastings teenager who was yesterday jailed for assaulting his mother told police they had made his life hell and he would become the next Jan Molenaar.

Bevan Graham Jones, 19, was sentenced in Hastings District Court on two charges of threatening to kill, male assaults female and theft relating to an incident on July 12, Hawke's Bay Today reported.

Police were called to Jones' mother's Flaxmere home after he abused her, threw a pot plant at her, kicked her and threatened to kill her when she woke him from an afternoon nap.

Jones told the arresting officers police had made his life hell, and that Napier gunman Jan Molenaar was a "legend".

"I will end up being the next Jan Molenaar and take a few of you ***** out," Jones said.

Molenaar shot dead one police officer and wounded two others before turning the gun on himself after a a siege in Napier last year

Sentencing Jones to four months prison, Judge Richard Watson said he should be "utterly ashamed" of what he had done to his mother.

"And if you think Jan Molenaar is a legend, then that may explain why you did what you did."

- NZPA