Teenager who deliberately ran over police officer in Cheadle detained for 31 months
A teenager who deliberately ran over a police officer and then "cowardly" fled the scene has been detained for 31 months.
Harvey Bell, 19, drove at PC Tracy Hallworth, knocking her to the ground, before running over her legs.
The uniformed officer from Greater Manchester Police (GMP) and a male colleague had responded to reports that four men were taking drugs in a black Audi at Sainsbury's car park on Wilmslow Road, Cheadle at about 11.30pm on 25 January.
But as officers approached the car, Bell reversed the Audi a short distance away before PC Hallworth stood two metres in front of the vehicle and ordered him to stop.
Prosecutor Sacha Waxman told Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court that Bell ignored the officer and accelerated forward.
PC Hallworth, 54, suffered a dislocated kneecap and a wound to her wrist and was taken to hospital after she lost consciousness at the scene.
She was off work for a fortnight and although she had recovered from her physical injuries the psychological impact remains, the court heard.
Reading out her victim personal statement in court, PC Hallworth said: 'Bell drove off not knowing if I was dead or alive.
"It haunts me that if I fell the other way he would have gone over my head and I might not be here.
'I will never forgive Bell for the upset he caused my family. What he did to me is permanently in the back of my mind on every job I go to.
'Thanks to the support of my family and my GMP family, Bell has not been able to take away the thing I love most, my job as a police officer.
'An attack on a police officer is an attack on us all.'
Bell, of previous good character, was said by his barrister, Rebecca Penfold to have expressed his 'significant remorse'. He pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
However, Judge Jenny Lester-Ashworth noted that assertion was 'at odds' with his pre-sentence report which said he felt a 'sense of injustice' that he had been held on remand in custody since he handed himself in the following day.
She told the defendant: 'You must have known you had hit her, but you cowardly left the scene.
'You could have killed her.'
Bell, from Knutsford, Cheshire will serve his sentence in a Young Offender Institution and has been banned from driving for two years and ordered to take an extended retest.
Following sentencing, Victoria Agullo, senior crown prosecutor for CPS North West, said: 'Assaults against frontline officers are totally unacceptable and today's sentence for Harvey Bell should leave those who would use a car as a weapon in no doubt that they will face the full force of the law.'
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