Man, 58, behind bars for 14 years after being found guilty of 'horrendous attack' on police officers
A 58-year-old man jailed for more than 14 years after throwing boiling water on a police officer, and punching another officer.
A 58-year-old man has been jailed after pouring boiling water from a kettle over a police officer and also punching another police officer after they tried to detain him.
John Davies, aged 58, of Talbot Street, Winson Green, was jailed for 14 years and six months at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday (June 26).
Originally, two officers came to Davies’ home where they found he had another man cornered against a fence in his garden.
Then the officers attempted to split the men up.
The man he had originally cornered told the officers that Davies had a knife on him. Officers asked Davies, and he denied having one.
Davies then attacked the police officers.
He threw the contents of a hot drink into the face of the man he had an altercation with.
When the officers tried to apprehend Davies - he attacked them.
He punched one officer in the face and grabbed the recently boiled kettle and poured the water over the other police officer.
A police officer was left with blistering over her shoulders, back and neck.
Davies was arrested by the officers’ colleagues and went on to admit maliciously wounding the PC he scalded with intent to resist arrest, assaulting the officer he punched, and assaulting the man he'd been arguing with when officers arrived.
He was given an extended licence period of four years.
DC Manpreet Sidhu said: "This was a horrendous attack on two officers going about their duties.
"You can see from the footage that Davies put up a struggle, and it took many officers to restrain him so that he could be brought into custody.
"One of the officers involved suffered significant injuries and has only recently been able to return to work following this assault.
"No one should have to face this level of violence simply for doing their job and I hope the sentence delivered to Davies provides some justice for those involved.
"This will have a lasting impact on the officers but now Davies is where he firmly belongs in prison.”