A TEENAGER has been ordered to carry out unpaid work after admitting assaulting an emergency worker in a Herefordshire town.
Diagio Biddle appeared before magistrates in Worcester for sentencing in April after admitting one count of using threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour, one count of criminal damage, and one of assaulting an emergency worker by beating at an earlier hearing.
The court heard from prosecutor Mark Hambling that the 18-year-old had used threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause a police officer harassment, alarm, or distress in Leominster on March 26.
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He had also assaulted another police officer by beating in the town and, intentionally or recklessly, damaged her glasses on the same date, magistrates were told.
Biddle, of Ryelands Road, Leominster, was handed a 12-month community order and ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work for the offence, with magistrates saying the sentence had been uplifted to reflect aggravation on the basis of presumed sexual orientation.
He was also ordered to pay prosecution costs of £185 and a £114 victim surcharge.
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