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In November 2018 he called a police officer a “slave” and spat in her face while being detained under the Mental Health Act after reports he was attempting suicide.
The police officer described the act as “being the vilest thing she had been subjected to as a police officer”, according to the court documents.
He admitted possessing a bladed article and criminal damage after being found “apparently very drunk” by police officers in December 2018 with a butter knife in his waistband, claiming he was “out for revenge”, the judgment said, having “been attacked” and left with a head injury that required stitches.
While in custody he defaced a copy of the police code of practice “with his own excrement”.
In January 2019 he was also involved in an altercation with a security guard, during which he struck the man in the face with his belt, court documents show.
[the security guard was black]
In September 2019 Saadallah was jailed for 10 weeks after admitting spitting at District Judge Sophie Toms as she sentenced him six months earlier at Reading Magistrates’ Court for two previous convictions.
He had also breached an earlier suspended sentenced for carrying a knife in a plastic bag at a supermarket, according to the court papers.
Saadallah, who had lived in Basingstoke Road in Reading, had his overall sentence reduced to 17 months and 20 days behind bars at the Court of Appeal in March this year.