A DRUG user being restrained by police officers on a hospital bed had spat in the face of a nurse who’d only recently returned to work after being in intensive care with Covid.
Owain Hughes, 23, of Victoria Avenue, Buckley, admitted assaulting staff nurse Juan Herrera at Wrexham Maelor Hospital and another emergency worker PC David Jones who he’d kicked in the thigh on March 4.
Magistrates at Llandudno today activated a twelve weeks suspended jail term and imposed 26 weeks consecutively for the assaults.
Court chairwoman Janet Ellard told him: ”Spitting is a revolting action especially under the present Covid-19 pandemic and you were under the influence of drugs.”