Drink and drug abuser hurled homophobic abuse at medic trying to help

A HOMELESS drink and drug abuser told a paramedic who had come to his aid to “go and put some more eyeliner on”.

Derby Crown Court heard how Ben Watson also abused a female emergency worker before trying to headbutt a police officer.

And the 30-year-old spat at a security guard at the Royal Derby Hospital in what the prosecutor called “a particularly disgusting act” during his Mambafuelled rage of offending in the city.

Jailing him for four months, Judge Robert Egbuna said: “You spat at an emergency worker during the period of this pandemic where everybody is concerned about catching Covid. That simply can’t be ignored.”

Gurdial Singh, prosecuting, said an ambulance crew were called to Charnwood Street, Normanton, on April 29 having been called to reports that a man was unconscious in the street.

He said that person was the defendant and one of the paramedics approached him where he told her to “**** off”.

Mr Singh said: “They decided to stop in the area to check he was okay when two males came across him and assaulted him by kicking him.

“They (the medics) got him into the ambulance for his own safety and he was taken to hospital. Once there he did not calm down, accusing a

You spat at an emergency worker during the period ... where everybody is concerned about catching Covid.

Judge Robert Egbuna

female paramedic of stealing his phone, calling her ‘a bitch.’

“He then spat towards another worker saying to him ‘go and put some more eyeliner on, you ****** .’”

Mr Singh said security were called and Watson, of no fixed address, spat at him too so the police were called and he was arrested. But as they tried to get him into a police van he attempted to headbutt one of the officers.

The prosecutor said: “When they got him to the police station he had still not calmed down so he had to be restrained and carried to the cell.

“In his interview he did apologise saying he had drunk two-and-a-half litres of cider, taken other tablets and smoked a Spice joint. He said he had no recollection of the incident.”

Watson, who has four previous convictions for five offences, pleaded guilty to two counts of assaulting an emergency worker and one count of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour.

The offences put him in breach of a suspended sentence imposed for burglary when he stole from friends who had taken pity on him and had allowed him to stay at their address. Bianca Brasoveanu, mitigating, said: “In his police interview he expressed regret and remorse at his repulsive behaviour.

“He has been kicked to the head prior to the intervention of the paramedics and what followed was undoubtedly seriously appalling behaviour.”