Wakefield criminal jailed after coughing in police officers' faces and claiming he had Covid-19

Clayton Grant Cresswell, of no fixed address, also threatened to bite the two officers when they tried to arrest him on Pugneys Road in Wakefield on April 16.

The 20-year-old appeared at Leeds Magistrates' Court the same day where he admitted two charges of assault against the officers.

He also admitted causing harassment, alarm or distress, by using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour.

Cresswell was already subject to a community order with an electronic tag curfew to remain at an address on Pugneys Road.

He had already breached a previous community order that he was given last year for theft.

As well as the 26 weeks' jail, he was told to pay £122 in costs.

It comes after a man was also recently jailed for six months after he admitted spitting at staff and police at Poundland in Castleford when he refused to adhere to social distancing rules.