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image captionSteven Licorish "intentionally spat with force" during his arrest, police said
A man who spat at a police officer who later tested positive for Covid-19 has been jailed.
PC Joe Terry said he was "angry" at being exposed to the risk of the virus while arresting 41-year-old Steven Licorish in Bournemouth on 6 January.
Licorish, of no fixed abode, had pleaded guilty to assault by beating of an emergency worker and being drunk and disorderly in public.
He was sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court to 10 weeks in prison.
Licorish was found in a drunken state by PC Terry and a colleague on Charminster Road after police were called to reports of a man obstructing traffic, Bournemouth Crown Court heard.