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A drunken man kicked out at a police sergeant before spitting at him while being transported to custody. Paul Padget, 56, of Lawrence Road in North Lynn, appeared at the town’s magistrates’ court on Thursday charged with assault by beating of an emergency worker. He pleaded guilty to the offence, which he committed on November 24. Crown prosecutor Holly Postle told the court that on that date, a police sergeant received reports of an “intoxicated and aggressive” male at a Downham property. That man turned out to be Padget, who lived at that property at the time. He was talking loudly and swear…

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