Flint,North Wales - Police assaulted after reports of two men entering Flint's Tesco store in their underpants

Published date: 19 March 2016 | 

Published by: Staff reporter
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Flint's Tesco store (Picture: Google) 

POLICE were alerted after two men entered the Tesco store at Flint in their underpants.

But when officers went to investigate they were directed to a block of flats where there were 10 people.

One of them, Paul Russell Greenough, 27, threw beer into a female police officer’s face which temporarily blinded her, said prosecutor Helen Hall.

Greenough, of Riverbank in Bagillt, denied a charge of assaulting a police officer, but was convicted in his absence at Flintshire Magistrates Court after he failed to turn up for his trial. 

A warrant was issued for his arrest.

Magistrates were told that after a report of two men in their underpants at the store, CCTV operators directed police to the Raven Court apartments. 

Officers found a number of people in the premises and there was a struggle while another man was arrested.

The Mold court heard Greenough threw the contents of a can of lager at the officer.

Assistance arrived and the officer arrested Greenough who later told her “as soon as the cuffs come off I will f...... chin you.”

He was taken into custody.

Magistrates were told Greenough had previous convictions for assault on police.

Greenough had already pleaded guilty to a charge of threatening behaviour on December 23 and damaging a police car window following his arrest for that offence.

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