Violent drunk spat at policeman

A DRUNKEN warehouse worker with a history of violence twice spat in a policeman’s face during a late-night bust-up in Manchester.

But 32-year-old Kieron Stewart, of Heron Street, Oldham, has been spared prison by the city’s magistrates.

The father of two was sentenced to 120 hours’ unpaid work and ordered to pay £85 compensation to the officer for the “disgusting act.”

Stewart swore at police while talking to a group of women outside Printworks on January 15.

He later goaded security staff with more offensive behaviour before police moved in to make an arrest.

During the struggle he twice spat in the officer’s left eye. Stewart received a suspended sentence for attacking an officer in 2006, it emerged.

Mr Nnambi Inegbu, defending, said Stewart was “vastly” intoxicated at the time and had since written a letter of apology to the officer.