A teenager was jailed for a year on Monday over a series of assaults and spitting incidents involving police.
Thomas Connolly, 19, of Orient Gardens in Belfast, appeared at Belfast Magistrates’ Court on 13 separate charge sheets and pleaded guilty to a total of 23 charges.
These included five counts of assault on police, attempted assault on police, resisting police, four of disorderly behaviour, four counts of criminal damage, six of possessing Class A, B and C drugs and theft of a bicycle.