Alcoholic Skegness man spat at police officer

A Skegness man who spat at a police custody sergeant hitting him on his sleeve, was less than a month into serving a community order, a court has heard.

Callum Jarratt, 30, of Wainfleet Road admitted assaulting a police officer when he appeared before

District Judge Peter Veits sitting at Boston Magistrates Court.

Prosecuting, Marie Stace said Jarratt had been arrested on another matter on February 4 and at the custody suite, spat at the sergeant.

She said he had been sentenced to a community order the previous month.

Mitigating, Philippa Chatterton said Jarratt was an alcoholic and had expressed his shame at what he had done.

She said he was due to be sentenced at the Crown Court on a dangerous driving charge on June 2 and suggested it might be better to send him there to be sentenced for this offence as well..

Judge Veits told Jarratt that spitting at someone was about the worse kind of assault in the present circumstances and that 'ordinarily' he would have sent him 'straight to custody' for this offence but instead sent him to Lincoln Crown Crown Court for sentence.