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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.
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A man will appear in court charged with murdering a millionaire hotelier.
Dorset Police received a report raising concern for the welfare of the occupants of an address in Higher Langham near Gillingham at 7.30pm on April 7.
Officers attended the property and found Sir Richard Sutton, who owned a string of top hotels in London, and a woman aged in her 60s – named as Anne Schreiber – with serious injuries.
The force said it is believed both had sustained stab wounds.
Paramedics attended the scene but Sir Richard, 83, was pronounced dead at around 9.15pm.
An initial post-mortem examination conducted on Friday indicated that the cause of his death was stab wounds to his chest.