Last week director of public prosecutions Max Hill warned the public that using Covid-19 as a threat against emergency workers would be treated as a crime that could lead to up to two years behind bars.
So supermarket staff are classed as key workers after all! I'm glad about that,with my ex missus being one! I noticed last night in the local Aldi that they now have 'anti coughing,gobbing up' screens to protect the check out staff. I'm now wondering how the law interprets deliberate coughing on key workers? For example i tend to cough quite a lot due to medical reasons. If say a copper or an ambulance worker was near to me and i just coughed without thinking. Would that be classed as assault?
Deliberately coughing at other key workers such as supermarket staff could be prosecuted as a common assault, which could mean up to six months in prison.
The crackdown follows numerous incidents of thugs targeting police and NHS workers with the sickening tactic.
Yesterday, a paramedic who was helping an unwell patient was coughed at by another man who was self-isolating inside a house in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
'The man, a 43-year-old, was arrested, charged and remanded for assaulting an emergency worker by way of coughing and threatening GBH by infecting with Covid-19,'............
