Thug beat lone police officer in traffic stop

A DRUG addict thug who was caught on mobile phone footage attacking a lone police officer after a traffic stop in a Bradford street has been jailed.

A recording of Mohammed Nadeem’s daylight attack on the officer in Grantham Road was viewed by thousands of people in July and yesterday it was revealed that the 34-year-old is a convicted sex offender who exposed himself to three teenage girls in 2015.

Bradford Crown Court heard that Nadeem, of Silverdale Road, Bradford, was given a three-year community order for the “flashing” offences and was also subject to a sexual harm prevention order when he was stopped by the mobile patrol officer at about 11.30am on July 25.

The court heard that Nadeem eventually complied when he was asked to turn off the engine of the red Skoda Fabia he was driving, but he then got out of the vehicle and moved towards the officer in an extremely aggressive manner.

Judge Jonathan Rose was told that the officer used his PAVA spray in an attempt to detain Nadeem, but there was a struggle in which the officer was punched on the right side of his face.

Prosecutor Caroline Abraham said Nadeem was seen to throw a number of punches and two or three of them connected with the officer’s face.

Judge Rose sentenced Nadeem to a total of 18 months in jail after he pleaded guilty to charges of assaulting the officer, dangerous driving, criminal damage and breaching the terms of sexual harm prevention order.

Nadeem’s barrister Gerald Hendron described his client as a chronic heroin addict who was living a chaotic lifestyle.