Man who threw bricks at police officer and cars gets suspended sentence
A man who threw bricks at a police officer and two police cars, injuring the officer, has been given a suspended jail sentence.
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Liam Prendergast, 33, attacked a Pc Bates in King Street, Dawley on March 16 this year. He also damaged one marked police vehicle and one unmarked police car, both belonging to West Mercia Police, after officers attended.
The officer who was hit by a brick suffered a laceration to his hand but later recovered and returned to duty. West Mercia Police's Jo Whitehead said "the outcome could have been much worse".
Prendergast, of Farm Lodge Grove in Malinslee, was charged with assaulting an emergency worker and two counts of criminal damage to police property. He pleaded guilty to all three charges.
