A court has heard how a West Midlands Police officer was brutally attacked in the street after she responded to a 999 call.
Kadeer Hussain has been jailed for two years following the attack that left the female officer and her colleague with serious injuries.
The guilty verdict came after 38-year-old Hussain, of Upper Grosvenor Road, Handsworth, a trial at Birmingham Crown Court after he was charged with two counts of assaulting an emergency worker.
The court heard how the two 999 response team officers responded to a call for help on 2nd May 2019.
When that arrived at an address in Handsworth – where Hussain lived – they were met by their attacker.
Detailing what happened next, Richard McConaghy, prosecuting, said:
“Then, with no warning whatsoever, he punched the male officer in the face knocking him backwards.
“He then immediately punched the female officer in the face causing her nose to start to bleed.
“Hussain then pursued the woman officer, punching her so hard she fell to the floor and then carried on his attack as she lay on the ground.
“She pleaded with him to stop as he repeatedly struck her in the face.
“Her colleague then pulled the defendant away and using a spray, although Hussain kept coming towards him.”
Hussain was eventually placed in cuffs but continued to attack the officers as back-up rushed to the scene.
The male officer suffered cuts, bruises and blurred vision following the attack.
The female officer was more seriously injured and had a swollen and bruised cheek, a cut to the inside of her mouth, a bloodied nose, cuts to her hands and arms.
In a statement, she said she still suffered flashbacks and could “still see him coming towards me.”
Judge Sarah Buckingham said:
“It was a sustained assault upon her. You clearly have a problem with authority.
“A further aggravating feature is that they were two working police officers who should have been able to go about their job in an ordinary way.”
Amanda O’Mara, defending, said it was a spontaneous act by Hussain who had previously had “issues with the police.”
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Is he here legally? If so, is he British? If the answer to either is no, once he is released, he must be deported. If he has ‘issues’ with the police, he can have them in his own country. They in turn might also have issues surrounding being assaulted and shoot him. His choice.
As far as the UK is concerned, if they are British, they are our problem. If they are not, they are somebody else’s problem and must be shipped straight back at once. To be honest, I would prefer to save the jail money and put him straight on a flight home. Furthermore, if he has family that cannot survive without benefits, they can accompany him and berate him all the way back.
Not enough, deport him on completion of sentence.
TWO YEARS IS AN INSULT to the officers who were on the receiving end of the barrage of punishment they received. They will remember this for the rest of their lives. If this was America or even the country where he came from it would have been 20 years. Two years means only approx ONE YEAR then he is out. I wonder how much it has cost to bring this to court. I hope he gets a good hiding when he goes into jail. DISGRACEFUL !
2 years? What an outrage something needs to be done. But who will do anything? Suck to death of soft sentences
He looks mentally unstable. Probably a Jihadi. No wonder we don’t integrate. Events like this scares us off. Gives Islam, Christianity or any other denomination a bad name and demeans their religion. Unprovoked assaults on anyone by anyone should carry a minimum 4 year sentence. Our law system is disgraceful and a fraud and an affront to our understanding.
This crime should 5 year minimum sentence fully served not matter who commits the crime
These people were doing a tough enough job as it was
How much longer do we have to put up with this ,people are welcomed in to this country then make fools of us and our laws
People abuse our benefits system,why would you travel through other countries to get the country with the best benefits ,only one answer money not asylum
If you are hard working and out of work the benefit system lets you down
The British government need a set of balls before we totally lose are identity.