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.”
Man found in a layby in his pants after driving to Snowdon during lockdown
Filip Petrik, 31, said he didn t realise Wales was in lockdown and was there to take photos of planets
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Staff served customers alcohol and they all congregated around tables without wearing face coverings.
Footage from the January 30 raid shows one officer greet the boozing rule-breakers at Lands End Farm near Wedmore, Somerset.
It comes as lockdown flouting continues across the country, with 40 students at Prince William s old university St Andrews in Scotland caught partying.
Meanwhile a man who went from Southampton to North Wales to photo planets from Snowdon has been slapped with a £745 fine by magistrates.
Customers were being served cider by staff and they were congregated around tables and not wearing face masks
Body-worn footage from January 30 shows one officer greet the boozing rule-breakers at the farm near Wedmore, Somerset