A man has been convicted as a result of a policewoman being brutally attacked on a Birmingham street following a 999 call. Kadeer Hussain, who also assaulted the other police officer in attendance, was jailed for two years following the attack. The 38-year-old had previously been found guilty following a trial at Birmingham Crown Court of two charges of assault.
During the trial, the court heard how the two officers responded to a call to an incident on May 2 last year and went to the street in Handsworth, Birmingham where the defendant lived. The police officers had been trying to find out the reason for the call when they were approached by Mr Hussain who initially appeared calm.
Richard McConaghy who was working for the prosecution said: “Then with no warning whatsoever he punched the male officer in the face knocking him backwards. He then immediately punched the female officer in the face causing her nose to start to bleed. Hussain then pursued the woman officer, punching her so hard she fell to the floor and then carried on his attack as she lay on the ground. She pleaded with him to stop as he repeatedly struck her in the face. Her colleague then pulled the defendant away and using a spray, although Hussain kept coming towards him.”
Mr Hussain then continued to struggle after being handcuffed when police reinforcements arrived and had to be carried to the police van. Mr McConaghy, for the prosecution stated that the male officer received minor injuries such as blurred vision. However, the female was more seriously injured with a bruised and swollen cheek, a bloodied nose, a cut to the inside of her mouth and cuts and abrasions to her hands and arms as a result of her falling to the ground. She also had to have a splint on her arm to help with the pain.
In summing up Judge Sarah Buckingham said: “It was a sustained assault upon her. You clearly have a problem with authority. A further aggravating feature is that they were two working police officers who should have been able to go about their job in an ordinary way.” Judge Buckingham said she had taken into account that there had been a breakdown in Hussain’s mental health at the time of the incident.
In defence, Amanda O’Mara said the defendant had already spent 11 months in custody on remand and also that this was a spontaneous act by Hussain who had previously had “issues with the police.”
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