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Kicking a police officer while on an undertaking has cost a 47-year-old Listuguj man the next 13 months of his life.

David Caplin pleaded guilty to breaching an undertaking he gave to police earlier this summer as well as to assaulting an officer when he appeared in Campbellton Provincial Court last week.

On July 18, a call from Coconuts Bar on Roseberry St. in Campbellton was placed to the RCMP where the caller said two men were outside fighting. When officers arrived, only one man was on the scene, identified by one of them as Caplin.

He had refused to give his name to the first officer but was arrested for breaching the undertaking that had forbid him from drinking liquor. At the detachment, he became even more belligerent and at one point, as officers were escorting him to a cell, kicked Const. Yves Desroches.

He appeared in court July 21 and subsequently sent for a 30-day psychiatric evaluation.

Judge Steven Hutchinson was blunt when he addressed Caplin last Friday afternoon.

"Your chances of being rehabilitated are not very high," said Hutchinson while addressing Caplin's "troubling criminal record." He also dismissed the notion of allowing Caplin to serve his time under house arrest as part of a conditional sentence that defence counsel Terry Delaney had requested.

On Aug 15, Hutchinson sent Caplin to jail for six months for the breach conviction but gave him one month credit for time he had spent in custody and while undergoing the evaluation. He also gave Caplin another eight months for assaulting Desroches and put him one two years supervised probation.

As well, Caplin was banned from owning firearms for 10 years and ordered to provide a DNA sample for the national data bank.