Shocking moment lockdown party girl smashes cop round the head with metal toilet roll holder
THIS is the shocking moment a lockdown lout smashes a police officer around the head with a metal toilet roll holder. Bayleigh Meadows, 21, smashed a sergeant round the forehead leaving him with a gash which medics glued back together in hospital. Boozed-up pal Millie Robinson is also heard taunting a female officer saying “I’ve […]
THIS is the shocking moment a lockdown lout smashes a police officer around the head with a metal toilet roll holder.
Bayleigh Meadows, 21, smashed a sergeant round the forehead leaving him with a gash which medics glued back together in hospital.
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Boozed-up pal Millie Robinson is also heard taunting a female officer saying “I’ve got coronavirus, watch out” as they attempt to enter the property.
Officers were called to break up a party at flats in Eastbourne, East Sussex, on April 8, before Meadows and Robinson turned violent.
The boozy party took place at the height of Britain’s Covid-19 lockdown.
Body-cam footage showed a fracas erupting in the hallway before the make-shift weapon is swung and hits the officer.
CORONAVIRUS BRAWL
One cop is heard telling the sergeant: “It’s quite a cut Rob” as he receives medical treatment afterwards .
He then asks “Has it stopped bleeding?” and “Is it going to need glue?”.
Meadows was jailed for a year after admitting assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
Robinson pleaded guilty to two counts of assaulting an emergency worker and was sentenced to six months behind bars.
On Tuesday, their friend Nicole Stonestreet, 21, of Eastbourne, was given a four-month suspended sentence after admitting assaulting a police officer at Lewes Crown Court..
The brawl erupted after a cop tried to arrest Robinson, who became aggressive and started punching and kicking the police.
Neighbour Bethany Moore was being treated by paramedics for suspected Covid-19 while the party was going on next door.
She told the BBC: “Their screaming went right through me and the paramedics saw how much pain I was in physically and how they were just making it worse by being so selfish and immature.
“The law’s there for a reason and they’re throwing a party and I can’t breathe.
‘PURE SELFISHNESS’
“It’s just pure selfishness.”
Lorna Lee, senior Crown prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “The CPS has unfortunately had to prosecute many assaults on police during the coronavirus lockdown .
“But this attack stands out as one of the most shameful.
“It was only luck that Bayleigh Meadows did not inflict a more serious injury when she struck one officer with a heavy object.”
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Police Constable Carl Smith, of Sussex Police, who investigated the case, said: “The verbal and physical abuse our officers were faced with in this situation was absolutely disgraceful.
“This happened during the height of the coronavirus lockdown period, when officers were continuing to do their job in challenging circumstances.
“To be met with such violence is completely unacceptable.”
