On May 2, 2024, Anthony Wilde, aged 34 of Stratford Avenue in Atherstone, was sentenced to 24 months in prison for two counts of assault causing actual bodily harm, driving without insurance, and failing to provide a specimen for a breathalyser test on request.
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00:00He swung his arm about, and I'd got one cuff on, and not managed to get the other.
00:10He sort of erupted, didn't he?
00:12Yeah, we were still trying to move him out of the road,
00:15because obviously we were still in the road at this point.
00:17And then I can't even remember what happened,
00:19I just know that all three of us ended up in the bush.
00:22Who's making this? Who's making it?
00:34One of those times where you're like,
00:36I'd rather wait this out and have him sit on me for the whole time,
00:40than him get up, because he's on top of me,
00:42and start hitting us, or running away, or anything.
00:45So it was just a waiting game, waiting for the other unit.
00:48I can ruin your life right now.
00:50Stop! I've asked you to put your hands behind your back, OK?
00:53How long's your colleagues going to turn up for?
00:55I couldn't have done anything to you right now.
00:57It's a good job I'm picked.
00:59At different points, he is swinging for us,
01:02and elbowing us, and kicking us, and trying to hit out and punch us.
01:07Get on the floor now!
01:12Now!
01:13He's pushing my head into the ground at different points,
01:17and he said to me, there's one thing that really stuck out,
01:20and he said, don't talk to me like that.
01:22And the funny thing is, the whole thing, we're going, calm down.
01:26And it didn't work, obviously.
01:33He swung a punch at some point at me.
01:35Yeah.
01:36And then I had a mark that's scarred now on my face from the handcuff.
01:40Yeah, because obviously the one handcuff's gone, so it caught you, didn't it?
01:44Eventually, we got him onto this grass verge,
01:47and I managed to get my spray out,
01:49and then I said, I'm going to spray you if you don't calm down,
01:52and I've sprayed him in the face,
01:54and I've accidentally caught you in the fire,
01:56because there was no other option.
01:58I'm going to spray you. Spray! Spray!
02:00Spray, calm down!
02:02Which we couldn't have even done before right now.
02:04No, no.
02:05Because it was one of those where, if I pull my baton out,
02:08I'll pull my parver out, because he's above us,
02:10and he's got the advantage. It just wasn't worth the risk.
02:13And he was saying this, and he was saying this throughout, wasn't he?
02:15He was saying, God, your colleagues are taking a long time.
02:19How long are they going to take? I could have done anything to you by now.
02:23Yeah.
02:24And he was doing stuff to us, and I think, in my head, I thought,
02:27how am I getting out of this? Am I going home?
02:30And I think that's the tricky part.
02:32I think you sort of think, where are people?
02:35And you're desperate for people to come and help you.
02:37And we managed to get the handcuffs on properly behind his back.
02:40And he was still resisting on the floor?
02:42He was still resisting, still trying to get himself up,
02:45and I actually arrested him.
02:47And once we'd got him in the cuffs, I arrested him fully.
02:50I'm arresting you for assault, police.
02:52No.
02:53OK?
02:54No.
02:55And driving under the influence of alcohol.
02:56You're not getting away with that.
02:57You don't have to say anything.
02:58You're not getting away with that.
02:59You may hold your phone if you do not answer my question.
03:00You're not getting away with that.
03:01OK?
03:02Spit!
03:03Anything you do say may be given as evidence.
03:04In that car, I just never think so.
03:06OK?
03:07And I'm surprised I even got that out.
03:09Yeah.
03:10The words out of my mouth.
03:11I was exhausted.
03:12It's instinct, isn't it?
03:13Because he even got given aftercare after he'd been harboured.
03:16Yeah.
03:17And a spray does sting.
03:18It does.
03:19And, you know, I think the right process is to tell people to keep blinking
03:23and give them the aftercare.
03:25The dog eventually turned up, the dog handler,
03:28and he didn't care about the dog.
03:30He said, let the dog bite me.
03:32He didn't care.
03:33Why let a dog bite me?
03:35He's a big...
03:36Get off of me!
03:38It was just a sign of relief, I think.
03:40Yeah, that we can hear blues.
03:42They are close, you know.
03:44Someone's here.