Injured on duty

News extract from September 2004

Man jailed for knocking down Pc

Pc Squires and his dog were injured

A man who ran over a police dog handler, flipping him "like a rag doll" and ending his 30-year career, has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years.

John Marshall, 29, was trying to flee from police when he struck three officers and another man with his car in Newark, Nottinghamshire, in May.

Dog handler Pc Paul Squires was left with horrific leg injuries.

Marshall admitted two counts of actual bodily harm one of grievous bodily harm with intent to resist arrest.

Pc Squire's German shepherd, Bruce, suffered a gashed leg and has also not worked since.

Judge Michael Pert, sentencing Marshall at Nottingham Crown Court, told him: "You decided in the driving seat of that car to use it as a weapon and you have wounded three police officers and a friend and one of those police officers you have maimed.

"You have ended his career and you have ruined his prospects of finding suitable alternative employment when he left the police force."

Marshall, of Churchill Drive in Newark, was banned from driving at the time of the offences.