Watch This Shocking Footage Showing Police Officer Being Assaulted By Handcuffed Man

Police have released shocking footage from an officer’s body camera that shows her being brutally attacked by a handcuffed man.

Sergeant Kerry Lawrence was assaulted by Craig Radbourne, 25, last July after responding to a report of a burglary in progress in Church Square, Basingstoke.

The video showed Radbourne, of Stanmore Gardens, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, viciously attacking Sgt Lawrence, banging her head on the ground several times. He was subsequently re-arrested by other officers nearby. He was initially detained on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly, and taken into police custody.

He pleaded guilty to a charge of assault causing actual bodily harm and was sentenced at Winchester Crown Court to three years in prison. John Apter, chairman of the Hampshire Police Federation, said: ‘Police officers accept that they perform a dangerous and unpredictable job.

‘I am pleased that the judge has given an appropriate sentence for this vicious and unprovoked attack on PS Lawrence.

‘This should send a strong message to the public that assaulting a police officer is not acceptable in any circumstances.’