Thames Valley Police stock image OUR frontline workers are there to protect and help us but some are still subjected to attacks out on the job. A number of people appeared in court last week charged with assaulting emergency workers in or near Reading.
Brendan Ryce, of Blackwater Close in Spencers Wood, will spend eight weeks in jail after beating a police officer in October last year. The 20-year-old pleaded guilty to the assault at Reading Magistrates Court on Thursday, April 1.
Fahrid Ahad will also spend time behind bars after beating a police officer in Reading on the January 3, 2021. The 33-year-old, of no fixed abode, will be locked up for ten weeks having pleaded guilty to the attack.
PROSECUTORS dropped a “revenge porn” charge levelled at a Swindon man. Danisa Hunda, 23, had been charged with disclosing a private sexual photograph in June 2019 with intent to cause distress. Hunda, from Swindon but whose address was given in court documents as Callington Road, Bristol, had not entered pleas. At a hearing at Swindon Crown Court on Monday, prosecutor Ellen McAnaw said the case against Hunda was being discontinued. No reason was given for the charge being dropped. Hunda, who was represented at the short hearing by barrister Peter Binder, spoke only to confirm his name.
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