AN ATTACKER assaulted a police officer in a Hereford incident, a court has been told.

Alexander Kitchen entered a guilty plea to one charge of assaulting an emergency worker by beating when he appeared before magistrates at Hereford's Justice Centre in Bath Street.

The court heard from prosecutor Mark Hambling that the 31-year-old had assaulted an emergency worker, namely a police officer who was acting in the court of his duties as such a worker, by beating in Hereford on September 4.

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Kitchen, who is of Rowberry Street, Bromyard, was fined £384, with magistrates saying the penalty had been uplifted from £230 as the attack was on an emergency worker.

He must also pay prosecution costs of £185 and a £154 victim surcharge.

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