A man has admitted assaulting police officers by spitting blood at them while he shouted about coronavirus. Samuel Konneh, 38, is currently being held on remand at Forest Bank prison in Salford near Manchester.
He pleaded guilty to five offences when he appeared at Manchester Crown Court via Skype this morning: four offences of assaulting an emergency worker, and an additional offence of stalking.
Police attended Konneh’s home in Withington, south Manchester, just days after the UK went into lockdown in connection with the stalking offence.
He was alleged to have been stalking a woman who had refused his advances – today he admitted the offence. As police broke down a door at the property it struck Konneh, who had been standing behind it,