{"id":6979,"date":"2024-08-09T10:35:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T10:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/man-admits-stealing-police-officers-baton-at-plymouth-protest\/"},"modified":"2024-08-09T10:35:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T10:35:44","slug":"man-admits-stealing-police-officers-baton-at-plymouth-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/man-admits-stealing-police-officers-baton-at-plymouth-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Man admits stealing police officer&#8217;s baton at Plymouth protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A man has pleaded guilty to violent disorder after grabbing a police officer&#8217;s baton and running off during Monday night\u2019s protests in Plymouth.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Guy Sullivan, 43, appeared at Plymouth Magistrate\u2019s Court via a video link from Exeter Prison on Friday.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">On Thursday he was jailed for 16 months after admitting stealing alcohol worth \u00a3281 from a Tesco Express while the disorder was taking place nearby.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Sullivan was remanded in custody for a sentencing hearing at Plymouth Crown Court on 12 August.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Prosecutor Gareth Warden said Sullivan was seen on a wall behind police officers during Monday evening\u2019s protest in Plymouth&#8217;s city centre.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">He said: \u201cSullivan jumped down from the wall and grabbed an officer\u2019s baton.  He had no defence and three or four people jumped on the officer and assaulted him.\u201d<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">District Judge Lisa Boyce told Sullivan he had left the officer &#8220;defenceless&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Speaking via video link, Sullivan said: \u201cI do apologise. I do apologise.\u201d<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c624jnj0ry1o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has pleaded guilty to violent disorder after grabbing a police officer&#8217;s baton and running off during Monday night\u2019s protests in Plymouth. Guy Sullivan, 43, appeared at Plymouth Magistrate\u2019s Court via a video link from Exeter Prison on Friday. On Thursday he was jailed for 16 months after admitting stealing alcohol worth \u00a3281 from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[4102,4104,417,2852,4105,599,797,4103],"class_list":["post-6979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-admits","tag-baton","tag-man","tag-officers","tag-plymouth","tag-police","tag-protest","tag-stealing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6981,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6979\/revisions\/6981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}