Man who kicked police officer sentenced to 10 month behind bars
A man who kicked a police officer during large-scale disorder in Whitehall has been jailed for 10 months.
Ozzie Cush, 20, of Reading, confronted a group of Metropolitan Police officers before hitting one individual with his foot at a demonstration near Trafalgar Square on July 31.
Prosecutor Alex Agbamu said Cush walked “deliberately” into the path of one officer, Pc Philip Munt, before he “kicked out” at him.
A video played in court showed the defendant approaching a group of police officers just outside Trafalgar Square before raising his leg at one of the officers and subsequently being detained.
Cush pleaded guilty to assaulting an emergency worker at Reading Magistrates’ Court on Thursday. Today, he was sentenced to 46 weeks’ detention in a young offenders’ institution.
Sentencing, Judge Benedict Kelleher said the offence “displayed a complete contempt for the police”. He added:
“Your actions also ran the risk of inflaming the wider situation and encouraging others to attack the police.”
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