A THUG who kicked two police officers who were carrying out their public duty has been jailed.

Mark Taylor also made racist remarks towards law enforcement officers which were deemed to be ‘grossly offensive’.

The 35-year-old was charged with possession of a class B drug, two counts of racially aggravated behaviour and two counts of assault by beating of an emergency worker.

He appeared to be sentenced at Chester Magistrates’ Court last Friday, July 8, and here he was told that only an immediate prison sentence was appropriate.

Prosecutor Alan Currums explained how police were called to Poplars Avenue in Orford on April 14 this year.

At the scene, they found that Taylor was in possession of a controlled class B drug, namely amphetamine.

The defendant then went on to behave in an ‘alarming and distressing’ way towards police which was also racially aggravated.

He admitted that in the process, he assaulted two police officers exercising their duty by kicking them.

The defendant’s guilty pleas were taken into account by district judge Nicholas Sanders, however he remarked that the racially aggravated comments were ‘grossly offensive comments to people doing a public service’.

He concluded that the offences involved ‘unprovoked attacks of a serious nature’, and that they were ‘so serious’ that only an immediate custodial sentence could be justified.

Taylor, of Dovedale Close in Orford, was subsequently sentenced to 40 weeks in prison.

An order was also approved for the forfeiture and destruction of the drugs seized, while he was ordered to pay compensation to the officers he assaulted.