A Workington man has been jailed after he headbutted a police constable after assaulting her colleague with a kick to the leg.
Daniel Roberts, 35, was prosecuted after an incident on 12th January.
Police had been called to reports of a domestic dispute and at the front door of an address chatted to the father of Roberts.
They realised, while talking, that Roberts was seeking to flee the home through a window.
“Police got into the property,” prosecutor Tim Evans told Carlisle Crown Court today. “The defendant was part-way out of the window. They brought him back in.”
Roberts was quickly handcuffed and then assaulted two police constables as attempts were made to take him to a patrol vehicle.
He kicked one PC in the leg, causing no injury. His colleague, a female officer, then arrested him on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker.
The woman later described how Roberts then launched towards her and headbutted her to the face, making contact with her nose and mouth.
Incapacitant spray was used on Roberts. “I used a tissue to blow my nose and blood began to pour from it as a result of the headbutt,” the officer stated.
Roberts, of Derwent Street, Workington, admitted two offences of assaulting an emergency worker, having been subject to a previously imposed community order at the time.
During the court sentencing hearing, a defence barrister suggested Roberts had been guilty of thuggish behaviour while resisting arrest amid a kinetic scene. Roberts had claimed neither assault pre-meditated.
Judge Michael Fanning imposed an immediate eight-month prison sentence.
As he sentenced Roberts, Judge Fanning said of police officers: “They deserve protection if they are going to be assaulted, and a headbutt is as deliberate an assault as there is.”
