A builder has been fined more than £1,000 after he headbutted a female police officer in the face. Liam Davies, of Ilkeston, caused his victim to "gasp out in pain" as the 34-year-old brought his head forward and used it to connect with her face, Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court heard.
At the time she was trying to place a soft pad on his head to stop him from hurting himself as he deliberately smashed it against the metal inside a cage in a Derbyshire police van after being arrested. But his defence solicitor told the hearing what his client did was in reaction to suddenly being sprayed in the face with CS gas by a different officer. Derbyshire Live reports.
The chair of the bench said: "The courts are not going to accept people behaving like you acted. We have heard you were in drink but you assaulted a police lady who was there to help you."
