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09
Jan 2023
Man pleads guilty to headbutting two police officers in Boroughbridge
A man has pleaded guilty to headbutting two police officers in Boroughbridge last year.
Jonathan Carradus, 32, was charged with assaulting emergency workers and occasioning actual bodily harm on July 10, 2022.
Carradus appeared before Harrogate Magistrates Court on Thursday and spoke only to confirm his name and enter his plea.
The 32-year-old, who gave an address in Cumbria, was charged with assaulting the officers in the town.
Antony Farrell, prosecuting, told the court that Carradus had an argument with his girlfriend and had left the property on the street to get into his car at 11.15pm.
Officers from North Yorkshire Police then stopped him after responding to reports of an “ongoing domestic” in the area.
The court heard that Carradus refused to offer a specimen and began being aggressive with the named police constables.
Mr Farrell said the 32-year-old headbutted one of the officers and a struggle started.
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Carradus then assaulted the second officer and continued to resist arrest, the court heard.
His defence said that he had pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity and that the incident “went the wrong way”.
The magistrates ordered Carradus to appear before the court on January 27 to be sentenced.
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