A man has been jailed after he spat at a shopkeeper and coughed at police, telling them he had coronavirus and he hoped their families would die.
Brendan Burke, 22, was discovered hiding in a cupboard after spitting at a post office worker who had banned him from the premises.
As police officers arrested him he began coughing on them, saying: "I've got confirmed coronavirus and now you've got it. I hope you and your family die." Birmingham Crown Court heard Burke, of Northfield, near Birmingham, had said something similar after bursting into Allen's Croft Post Office on April 3.
He spat at the victim, who had previously banned him from the store, saying: "I have coronavirus, you're going to die." Burke was jailed for 42 weeks after