A Pembroke man who assaulted two Police officers will spend 60 days in jail.

Dandre Leach, of King Street, pleaded guilty yesterday to assaulting P.c. Milton Douglas and P.c. Steven Denny on January 3, 2007. The officers were arresting the defendant for another matter, which was not before Magistrates? Court yesterday, when the assaults took place.

Leach punched one officer while in custody yesterday evening and threw his dinner into the another officer?s face, causing mustard to seep into the officer?s eye.

Leach said: ?I am respectful of the law but I was drunk when they came to my house and it was a domestic situation and sometimes those get out of hand. They came at me with aggression and I was drunk, so I acted out.?

Leach was found guilty of assaulting another officer in 2000.

Magistrate Archibald Warner said Leach clearly had no respect for the law and was lucky to live in Bermuda.

He said: ?In other jurisdictions, these matters would not be before the court because you would not dare think of assaulting an officer. In other jurisdictions, the officers would have dealt with you then. I do not condone that behaviour but all I am saying is you are lucky you are in this jurisdiction.?

Leach, 39, was sentenced to 60 days in prison for assaulting the officers.

A man has been banned from driving for a year after being caught at the wheel while under the influence of alcohol.

Edward Lloyd Clark, 55, admitted driving while under the influence when he appeared at Plea Court.

The court heard Police were on patrol in St. John?s Road, Pembroke, when they received a report that a vehicle suspected of being driven by a drink-driver was travelling east along that road. Officers saw a commercial vehicle swerving from side-to-side along the road and pulled it over to question the driver Clark, whom they noticed smelt of alcohol, said Crown counsel Paula Tyndale.

Clark, of Twin Lane, Pembroke, was asked if he had been drinking and replied that he had just finished work. He agreed to go to Hamilton Police Station to give a breath sample but once there declined to use the testing machine saying he would ?rather sleep in a cell?.

When he appeared in court, Clark pleaded guilty to the charge and said he was sorry. He was fined $1,000 and banned from driving all motor vehicles for 12 months.