It comes amid a series of similar incidents involving other emergency workers
firearms command said on Twitter that the suspect had walked up to officers in a car in Haringey, north London, yesterday and ‘shouted that he had coronavirus before deliberately coughing saliva all over them’.
The unidentified man then began to physically attack them, officers said, before he was Tasered and arrested. The suspect was later tested for the virus and found not to have it. Last week director of public prosecutions Max Hill warned the public that using Covid-19 as a threat against emergency workers would be treated as a crime that could lead to up to two years in prison.It comes amid a series of reports of attacks on emergency workers as the crisis in the UK escalates.Deliberately coughing at other key workers such as supermarket staff could be prosecuted as a common assault, which could mean up to six months in prison.
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