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AN aspiring pharmacist coughed in the face of a police officer who was escorting him to hospital after he’d been hit on the head with a brick. Rahees Khan came to the attention of police after he chased a man down the street with a metal pole during a fight in April. But while when the drunk 22-year-old was being taken to hospital in the back of an ambulance, he pulled down his face mask and coughed in the face of an accompanying officer twice. At the time of the incident Khan, of Queensgate, Nelson, had been on bail for a string of driving offences.