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Man jailed for racially abusing Bexley police
3:44pm Friday 10th August 2012 in Greenwich news By Kelly Smale
Man jailed for racially abusing Bexley police
A 32-YEAR-OLD man who racially abused police has been sentenced to eight weeks in jail.
Martin Weaver, of Domingo House, in Leda Road, Plumstead, was found guilty of a racially aggravated public order offence and sentenced yesterday (August 9) at Bromley Magistrates’ Court.
Four detectives from Bexley went to Weaver’s home on May 25 to execute a search warrant to look for suspected stolen goods.
Weaver arrived at the premises shortly afterwards and was verbally aggressive.
He was arrested for using threatening, abusive and racially insulting words towards the officers who believed that unlawful violence would be used against them.
Weaver, who was already on a suspended sentence for two counts of common assault committed in October last year, was further sentenced to 16 weeks in prison, making a total of 24 weeks.
Bexley’s Detective Chief Inspector Gary Holmes said: "This type of racially aggravated behaviour towards police or any other individual is unacceptable and will not be tolerated.
"All allegations of racial crime will be robustly investigated."
Comments(2)
hungerpains2
says...
9:52am Sat 11 Aug 12
Virtual-Monster wrote:dont forget "racism" works both ways!
St Domingo House (on the Woolwich Dockyard Estate) is a Council block of flats, so lets hope this guy is a Greenwich Council tenant and gets evicted for breaching his tenancy agreement. There is no room for racism in our society.
Virtual-Monster says...
4:59pm Fri 10 Aug 12
There is no room for racism in our society.