Rant at police lands man in jail

A drunken father-of-three who launched a foul-mouthed rant about Russians at police guarding the scene where a former Russian double agent and his daughter were discovered critically ill has been jailed for 16 weeks.

Jamie Knight, 30, faced magistrates to plead guilty to four offences committed at The Maltings in Salisbury, Wiltshire, on the evening of March 9.

Swindon Magistrates’ Court heard that Knight, a scaffolder, breached the cordon around the bench at The Maltings where Sergei Skripal, 66, and his 33-year-old daughter Yulia were found.

Nick Redhead, defending Knight, said: “Mr Knight really can’t account for why he used words against Russians. He has never met one.”