PC racially abused by King's Lynn man in ambulance

A police officer was racially harassed by a Lynn man being treated in an ambulance by paramedics.

Drunken Tommy Jennings, 21, swore as he told the officer born in Ukraine to go back to “your own country”.

He said: “People coming over here, taking our jobs and telling us what to do.”

Prosecutor Denise Holland told town magistrates on Thursday: “At hospital, he continues swearing and shouting. He’s told to stop but doesn’t unfortunately.”

In a victim personal statement read to the court, PC Mykola Nikolnikov said he was unhappy at the abuse over his ethnicity, particularly as he’d been trying to stop Jennings fall off the stretcher.

“I’ve lived in the UK more than 16 years and I’m a British citizen,” he added.

Jennings, of Westmark, pleaded guilty to racially aggravated intentional harassment and using threatening behaviour in the incident on Boxing Day, 2020.

Andrew Cogan, mitigating, said his client has very little recollection of the events.

“Quite why he behaved like that is beyond his wit and compass to explain,” he added. “He wishes to apologise to the officer and to the ambulance crew and the hospital staff who were trying to treat him.”

Jennings was fined £275 and ordered to pay £100 compensation to PC Nikolnikov and £34 victim surcharge.