A THUG has been jailed after attacking police officers during a drunken blackout.

Officers were called to Rayner Drive, Braintree, after Mitchell Cox inexplicably began hammering on a stranger’s door and pushed the homeowner when he answered.

Police realised the 21-year-old was heavily intoxicated and he became abusive.

They arrested him for being drunk and disorderly and Cox struggled as they tried to apply handcuffs.

He punched one officer to the head and bit him on the hand before being put into the back of a police car where he spat at a sergeant who he then called a “dirty skank”.

Cox then urinated in the back of the vehicle.

He admitted assault, two counts of assaulting an emergency worker, criminal damage and being drunk and disorderly when he appeared at Colchester Magistrates’ Court.

Cox, of Coldnailhurst Avenue, Braintree, has previous convictions for assaulting police officers.

Levent Kamal, mitigating, said Cox was seeking help for his alcohol problems.

“These are serious offences,” said Mr Kemal.

“There seems to be a repetitive nature to his offending.

“He believes he committed the offences as a result of drinking alcohol and he says he needs help to deal with that.

“As a result of his drinking he blacked out and has no recollection of what happened.

“Having seen the evidence he takes full responsibility.”

Chairman of the bench Martin Stuchfield said: “We cannot see any alternative to custody.

“You were before the court last month for similar offences.

“Two police officers – one who you spat at and the other who you punched and bit.

“Both of those assaults give rise to serious health concerns.

“You might be fit and healthy, but they don’t know that.

“They will have to go through the worry of hospital checks and have it hanging over them.

“They are doing such important work and what you did was wholly unacceptable.”

Cox was jailed for eight weeks for the latest incident, which happened in January, and six weeks consecutively for assaulting an officer in the summer.

A previous community order was revoked.

Cox will pay a £122 victim surcharge when he is released.