Officers showed ‘exceptional bravery’ during unprecedented police station attack

Alexander Dighton was sentenced at the Central Criminal Court in London (Nick Ansell/PA) - (PA Archive)

Officers showed “exceptional bravery” when confronting a man armed with weapons and a firebomb in an “unprecedented attack” outside a police station.

Alexander Dighton, 28, attacked officers outside the Talbot Green police station in Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales, on January 31, stabbing one officer in the thigh and knocking another unconscious.