Prisoner gets one year for assaulting cop
Manama : The High Criminal Court has sentenced a jail inmate to one year’s imprisonment for beating a police officer in Jau Prison.
The incident happened while the defendant was serving a jail sentence for a criminal conviction.
The victim said that he was assaulted while trying to handcuff the accused man.
“He pushed me to the ground, and used force to remove the handcuffs while I wanted to tie him,” the victim told prosecutors.
The defendant said that it handed a mercy-sentence to the defendant, invoking Article 72 of the penal law.
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