A MAN who assaulted police officers in Weymouth after being involved in a fight with three others has been jailed.

Police were called to reports of an aggressive man fighting outside The William Henry pub, in Frederick Place, at around 7.55pm on April 2.

When officers arrived on the scene, they tried to tackle 21-year-old Cade Robert David Adams, of Bridport, who tried to flee the scene.

Checks showed Adams was in breach of a curfew that prevented him from being out after 7pm.

He was subsequently detained and arrested. During the arrest, Adams kicked an officer numerous times and struck them in the arm and torso.

The defendant proceeded to attempt to spit at officers and verbally abused a teenager who was standing in the vicinity.

“During the journey into custody and while he was in a cell, Adams assaulted four more officers,” a court was told.

“He picked a mattress off the floor and threw it at an officer and also dug his nails into their arm and dragged his hand downwards causing a scratch.

“Further investigative work revealed that Adams had stolen alcohol from Asda in the town earlier that day.”

He later pleaded guilty to using threatening or abusive words or behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress, two counts of theft from a shop and five counts of assaulting a constable in the execution of their duty.

Adams was sentenced at Poole Magistrates’ Court on May 19 to 11 months in prison.

After the hearing, Detective Sergeant Kim Williams, of Dorset County Volume Crime Team, said: “It is wholly unacceptable for officers to be assaulted while carrying out their frontline duties.

“We will do everything we can to make sure offenders such as Adams are held to account for their actions.”

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