Astonishing footage has emerged of the moment two drug dealing thugs attacked a police officer in broad daylight at a public car park.
Police car dash-cam footage shows the officer following Kalvyn McGimpsey and Liam Elms, who had driven from Merseyside to North Wales to sell more than £5,000 worth of cannabis.
The North Wales police officer, PC Meurig Jones, is seen approaching the pair in a car park in Menai Bridge, Anglesey.
He searches McGimpsey, 24, Ardrossa Road, Anfield , and find a small amount of cannabis on him.
Police dash cam still of PC Meurig Jones stopping two men from Liverpool and found cannabis worth more than £5,000 in their car before they attacked him
Off camera, PC Jones then reaches for a black bag in the foot well of the blue Lexus but McGimpsey grabs it and the pair wrestle for control.
Elms, 32, of Chigwell Close, Croxteth , then puts the officer in a headlock and drags him to the ground.
Although the officer manages to hold on to Elms while he desperately radioed for help, McGimpsey was able to make his escape with the bag.
It emerged later he frantically knocked on homes in the area, asking for residents to hide him in exchange for cash.
The residents refused, and at 2.45pm one concerned homeowner called the police.
Police dash cam still of PC Meurig Jones stopping two men from Liverpool and found cannabis worth more than £5,000 in their car before they attacked him
Shortly afterwards, the fugitive was found in scaffolding in a nearby block of flats and the bag, with 548g of herbal cannabis in, was found in a wheelie bin.
McGimpsey and Elms were subsequently tried at Caernarfon Crown Court, where a jury heard that PC Jones needed hospital treatment after the assault on January 10 this year.
Police dash cam still of PC Meurig Jones stopping two men from Liverpool and found cannabis worth more than £5,000 in their car before they attacked him
Jailing the pair for a combined 46 months for assaulting a PC and conspiracy with intent to supply cannabis, judge Niclas Parry said: “You drove from Liverpool to North Wales with the sole intention of selling drugs.
“Likely you thought North Wales as a soft touch but there has been a concerted effort to clamp down on high quality drugs bring brought into the region from both Liverpool and Manchester.”
Chief Inspector Darren Wareing from North Wales Police said after the sentencing: “The officer in this case was merely doing his job and while the nature of policing carries some risk, assaulting a police officer is totally unacceptable.”
Kalvyn McGimpsey – sentenced to 16 months for assaulting a PC and conspiracy with intent to supply cannabis and Liam Anthony Elms – sentenced to 30 months for assaulting a PC and conspiracy with intent to supply cannabis.
A spokeswoman for North Wales Police said she did not know how the video, entitled “Dash Cam Footage of Police Assault – Liverpool , Scousers”, found its way on to YouTube.
She said that the footage had not been released by the force.
Source: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/