Overview

• Shafi Momad, 30, pleaded guilty at Poole Magistrates' Court to assaulting an emergency worker after spitting on PC Browning at the Roundhouse hotel in March.
• Prosecutors said he was heavily intoxicated, having drunk half a bottle of vodka and beers, and he acknowledged a problem with alcohol.
• The court noted he is serving a six-week suspended sentence for a separate religiously aggravated assault but could not treat it as aggravating because the spitting occurred earlier.
• The magistrates ordered £50 compensation to the officer and waived costs and a surcharge due to Momad’s limited means.
• Defense said he had been assaulted before police arrived and suffers depression linked to not being allowed to work, as local reports point to continuing tensions around Bournemouth’s migrant hotels.