Josh Smith – Exeter

A violent woman beater from Exeter has been jailed for biting a wheelchair user on the nose and assaulting a police officer.

Josh Smith, aged 30, had known his one-legged victim, David Frost, for a long time, Exeter Crown Court heard.

On July 28 of this year he spotted him leaving supported accommodation in Smythen Street and ran towards him. Before Mr Frost could reverse out of the way he was punched several times.

Smith then grabbed hold of Mr Frost and bit him on the nose.

Police were called and found Smith asleep in a car park in Howell Road. He resisted arrest and kicked the door of a police van, causing it to swing into a police officer.

The offences put Smith in breach of a community order given to him for domestic violence offences earlier this year.

Judge Stephen Climie said it left him with no choice but to send him to prison.

The defendant, of Beacon Avenue, was jailed for two years and five months.