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.