1/1 A MAN who spat at a police detention officer while being held in a cell on suspicion of begging has been jailed for 24 weeks. Robert Hill hid under a blanket to stop the officer from monitoring him after he claimed to have taken an overdose, Bradford Crown Court heard last week. When the officer pulled the blanket off so that he could see him, Hill spat at him saying: “Next time I’ll punch you in the face.” Hill, 41, of Laisteridge Lane, Bradford, had 58 previous convictions for 123 offences, including begging, theft, battery, affray and having a bladed article. He pleaded guilty to assaulting the detention officer as an emergency worker by spitting at him at Trafalgar House Police Station on September 13 last year.