Jailed after a spate of incidents including five charges of assaulting police officers

A Spalding man has been jailed for 34 weeks after a spate of incidents, including five of assaulting emergency workers.

Timothy Philips (52), of Park Road, came before Lincolnshire Magistrates’ Court on December 12 on a number of charges.

On July 12 he pleaded guilty to assaulting three police officers after being found to be driving while nearly three times over the drink driving limit on Glenside North.

He recorded 99 microgrammes of alchol in 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit is 35 microgrammes.

He was banned from driving and ordered to pay £250 compensation to one officer.

Philips was also proven in absence to have used threatening or abusive words or behaviour in Park Road, Spalding and in Pilgrim Hospital in Boston on August 23 and on the same day assaulted two police officers and resisted arrest from one.

He was ordered to pay £50 compensation to one officer.

Philips pleaded guilty to drunken disorderly behaviour in Clover Way, Spalding on October 24 for which there was no separate penalty.
He then pleaded guilty to an assault and drunken disorderly behaviour at Lincolnshire Magistrates’ Court on December 9.

In total he was jailed for 34 weeks and must pay £300 compensation.

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