A wanted drug-driver, who coughed at police and threatened to infect them with Covid-19 by spitting, has been locked-up.
Michael Gray, 41, of Ingatestone Road, South Norwood received nineteen weeks imprisonment.
At Croydon Magistrates Court he pleaded guilty to assaulting an emergency worker and using threatening words and behaviour.
Police stopped him for harassing three women in Upper Tulse Hill, Brixton Hill at 1.55am on April 2.
He was identified as a wanted suspect, having failed to appear on bail at court on a charge of driving while under the influence of drugs.
He was arrested on the warrant and became confrontational.
Following his arrest he intentionally coughed towards the two officers and when in custody threatened to spit at both of them.
He stated he hoped to infect them with COVID-19 so that they would pass it on to their children.
Gray received eight weeks for the assault on police officers, plus eleven weeks for the drug driving offence.
The court also handed down a £100 fine for the public order offence.
In addition, Gray was disqualified from driving for 26 months.
Superintendent Kris Wright, of the Central South Command Unit, said: “This attack on our officers whilst carrying out their duties protecting the communities of Lambeth and Southwark is an attack on every one of us.
“Both officers displayed the finest qualities of the Met, in spite of threats to, and the risk of COVID-19 infection through this man’s actions, and even worse his desire to cause harm to the officers' children.
“I am grateful to the court that it treated this matter with the seriousness it deserves."
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