A judge has issued a suspended sentence to a 36-year-old Warminster man who pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers, theft and criminal damage. In June 2020, Damien John Chorley spat at police officers in Melksham whilst claiming to have Covid-19. He later caused damage to police vehicles. In August 2020 he assaulted another police officer in Basingstoke and in June 2021 he assaulted two men at a pub in Salisbury. Chorley, of Swaledale Road, also admitted to theft of a hat from The Original Factory Shop in Warminster. Magistrates at Salisbury Law Courts described his actions as “absolutely disgusting behaviour” and handed him an 18-week jail sentence that has been suspended for 18 months.
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