A Belfast man who spat on members of the emergency services after crashing an NIE van he hijacked was handed a sentence totalling seven years and three months on Friday.
As he sentenced David Connors for a total of 16 offences committed in February 2021, Judge Geoffery Miller KC branded his actions towards a police officer, doctor and nurse as “reprehensible and disgusting”.
Connors, 32, from Old Forge in Dunmurry, appeared at Belfast Crown Court along with co-accused Raymond David Carlisle, 30, from Ardoyne Road in Belfast, who had a sentence of three years and four months imposed for nine offences.
