Man made threat to kill cable TV salesman

A customer has beensentenced for falsely imprisoning a cable TV salesman and threatening to kill him after waiting at home for two days for an engineer from the company to show up.

Dariusz Pelc, aged 38, threatened to cut the salesman’s fingers off and later told him he would kill him if his broadband was not installed within 24 hours.

He was given a four-year suspended sentence but ordered to return to his native Poland to serve an outstanding two-year sentence for threatening behaviour.