A man from Bidford-on-Avon has been given a suspended prison sentence after he narrowly avoided mowing down a police officer as he fled from a scene where he had just assaulted another officer.
The 2nd police officer had to jump out of the way of the car that was being driven by Christopher O’Brien in Spangle Way, Warwickshire, on 19th November 2019.
Officers had initially responded to a call for help at an address in Spangle Way. After officers arrived at the scene, O’Brien arrived at the property and took it upon himself to become involved in the incident. O’Brien assaulted one of the officers in the process.
Having assaulted the police officer, O’Brien then attempted to leave the scene and jumped into his car. As he sped off, another police officer had to jump out of the way to avoid being struck by the vehicle that was being driven by O’Brien.
O’Brien, 34, of Hipbag Lane was found guilty of dangerous driving and pleaded guilty to assaulting an emergency worker.
Appearing at Warwickshire Magistrates’ Court on Friday (11 September) he was given a six-month prison sentence suspended for 12 months.
He was also ordered to pay £100 compensation and £800 court costs.
Detective Constable Imran Ghouri from Warwickshire Police Serious and Complex Crime Team said:
“It was only through luck that O’Brien’s car didn’t collide with the officer and injure him or worse; I hope he has learned a valuable lesson.”
Before you go...
We need your help. As former emergency services & armed forces personnel, we pride ourselves on bringing you important, fast-moving and breaking news stories which are free from the negative bias which is often directed at the emergency services by some sections of the mainstream media.
One of the reasons we started 'Emergency Services News' was because we became tired of reading badly informed stories about the emergency services which seemed only ever to highlight negative aspects of the job.
We want to be the unheard voice of the remarkable men and women who serve in the emergency services, NHS and armed forces. And with around 500k page views each month, we are getting there!
As income from ads, the mainstay source of income for most publishers, continues to decline; we need the help of our readers.
And remember, if you have a service, product or job vacancy that you would like to promote to our large readership, then you can buy advertising space in our articles.
You can support emergency services news from as little as £1. It only takes a minute. Every contribution, however big or small, is vital for our future.
Please help us to continue to highlight the life-saving work of the emergency services, NHS and armed forces by becoming a supporter.
WTF ???
So much for clamping down on assaults on emergency Services. Another pathetic court decision.
Absolute disgrace of a sentence hope they appeal he should be licked away a long time😡
Locked*
The cancer spreads across the world. It needs to be STOPPED people. What’s the cure for this ‘set them free’ Dem;Lib judges who do NOTHING help our people. Personally I’ve started a list, as we all should and then SHARE IT about 3 weeks before the election, make the lists VIRAL. WARM our citizens on just how dangerous these ‘jelly spined people are!! UNITE and STAND TOGETHER!!