Homeless man admits to second axe attack
Richard Andrew Hunter, 48, pleads guilty to weapon assault on same victim for second time
A transient admitted Friday to brandishing an axe when he attacked a Fredericton community safety officer - the same officer he was convicted of assaulting with an axe last year.
Richard Andrew Hunter, 48, of no fixed address, appeared in Fredericton provincial jail by telephone from the Saint John Regional Correctional Centre on Friday to answer to a couple of charges.
Present in court was his defence counsel was lawyer Wanda Severns.
Hunter pleaded guilty to a March 28 charge of breaching his probation by failing to report to his probation officer, a Sept. 18 count of failing to attend court, a Sept. 21 charge of assaulting Elias Eliakis with a weapon - namely, an axe.