Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A hospital patient who claimed to have Covid-19 coughed in the faces of police officers saying he’d hoped to infect them and their children too.Motherwell man Colin McPherson, who now says he’s embarrassed by his actions, was jailed for 15 months at Hamilton Sheriff Court on Friday.He admitted assaulting four police officers by coughing at them in a treatment room at University Hospital Wishaw on August 18.McPherson, 40, also admitted kicking one of the officers in the groin and behaving in a threatening or abusive manner.Jennifer McLaren, prosecuting, said police were called to Muirhouse Tower, Motherwell, around 3pm.Paramedics there were struggling to.
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