Moment Birmingham man throws kettle of boiling water over police officer as he tries to resist arrest
Birmingham man John Davies poured the water from a recently boiled kettle on a police officer - leaving her with blistering over her shoulders, back and neck.
Bodycam footage shows the moment a man threw a kettle of boiling water over a police officer in Birmingham as he tried to resist arrest.
West Midlands Police says officers were called to a disturbance in the garden of John Davies’ Birmingham home, where they found he had another man cornered against a fence. One of the officers split the men up, before Davies went back inside his house. The other man told the officers that Davies had a knife.
The force says Davies was confronted about the knife by the officers, but he denied it. Suddenly, he threw the contents of a hot drink he had made into the face of the man he’d been arguing with.
The officers tried to arrest Davies, but he punched one in the face and grabbed the recently boiled kettle and poured the water over the other. She was left with blistering over her shoulders, back and neck.
Davies was arrested by the officers’ colleagues and went on to admit maliciously wounding the PC he scalded with intent to resist arrest, assaulting the officer he punched, and assaulting the man he'd been arguing with when officers arrived.
Davies, aged 58, of Talbot Street, Winson Green, was jailed for 14 years and six months at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday. He was given an extended licence period of four years.
DC Manpreet Sidhu, from the neighbourhood crime team at Bournville, said: "This was a horrendous attack on two officers going about their duties.
"You can see from the footage that Davies put up a struggle, and it took many officers to restrain him so that he could be brought into custody.
“One of the officers involved suffered significant injuries and has only recently been able to return to work following this assault.
"No one should have to face this level of violence simply for doing their job and I hope the sentence delivered to Davies provides some justice for those involved.
"This will have a lasting impact on the officers but now Davies is where he firmly belongs in prison.”
The force says both officers have returned to work.