Police officers were sprayed in the face with PAVA spray after the man they were trying to arrest took it from them and tried to escape. He later took possession of a knife and threatened to stab himself.
Daniel Jones, 32, was at his mother's house in Penywaun, near Aberdare, on March 15 when two officers visited the address to arrest him, after he breached his licence following a domestic incident. He was found folding clothes and was initially calm but became "extremely aggressive" after he was told he would be placed in handcuffs.
A sentencing hearing at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court on Monday heard Jones refused to leave and pinned one of the officers to a bed. Attempts were made by the second officer to get him off but she resorted to kicking him when he failed to act on her instructions. She took out her PAVA spray but Jones managed to rip it from her grasp and sprayed both of the officers in the face.
