06:58 EDT, 22 January 2021
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An anti-lockdown protester who filmed inside a hospital in a bid to claim the coronavirus pandemic is a massive scam has been charged with a public order offence.
Debbie Hicks wandered around Gloucester Royal Hospital last month saying it was shut down and dead and was arrested in her dressing gown by two officers who visited her home in Stroud 24 hours later.
Now Hicks - a comrade of Jeremy Corbyn s anti-vaxxer brother Piers - has been charged with using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress over the video.
A 33-year-old Cirencester man who assaulted a police officer by putting his hands around his neck has avoided an immediate jail term - even though it was his third such offence. Daniel Clements of Victoria Road, Cirencester, pleaded guilty at Cheltenham Magistrates Court on January 12, to assaulting PC Webb by beating him during the execution of his duties as an emergency worker in Cirencester on November 2, last year. The magistrates sentenced him to 12 weeks jail suspended for a year. They said a prison term was necessary, albeit suspended, because Clements had put his hands around the officer s neck and had two previous offences on his record for assaulting officers. Also because he was subject to a community order at the time.