A MAN has been jailed for 26 weeks for assaulting a police officer and threatening to smash up a room at Bradford Royal Infirmary.

Aqueedat Kazmi, 26, of Gibson Street, Bradford Moor, Bradford, appeared in custody at West Yorkshire Magistrates’ Court in Leeds today.

He was accused of assaulting a woman by beating her and threatening behaviour in Gibson Street, assaulting a police officer as an emergency worker by beating him, and threatening a nurse at BRI (pictured) that he would smash up a room at the hospital, all between June 5 and June15.

The charge of threatening a nurse was withdrawn in favour of an offence of using threatening behaviour.