PC Ryan Davis suffered horrific injuries after Richard Quinn, 49, and his son Alex, 20, repeatedly stamped on him. CCTV shows the Quinns’ attacking another man in the centre of Hereford
A thug father and son battered a police officer as he tried to stop them attacking another man.
PC Ryan Davis suffered horrific injuries after Richard Quinn, 49, and his son Alex, 20, repeatedly stamped on him. CCTV shows the Quinns’ attacking another man in the centre of Hereford on March 29, 2024.
PC Davis, who was in plain clothes, was on patrol in the city to protect women and girls from assaults. Footage shows him stepping in to stop a man being repeatedly punched after the Quinns’ attacked him on Union Street.
The Quinns’ quickly turned their attention to PC Davis and repeatedly stamped on him before strangling him on the ground.
PC Davis suffered a dislocated and broken ankle, broken lower leg, multiple fractures and face lacerations including damage to an eye. PC Davis’ colleagues were also attacked by Richard Quinn’s wife Carolynn, who was also with her husband and son. She was convicted of two counts of assault of an emergency worker.
Richard Quinn, 49, of Hereford, was convicted of assault causing grievous bodily harm against PC Davis and a separate assault.He was jailed for four years and three months at Hereford Crown Court on Friday (20/2).
Alex Quinn, 20, of the same address, was sentenced to three years and ten months at a young offenders’ institute for the same offences. After the sentencing hearing, PC Davis revealed the trauma he is still suffering today as a result of the attack.
The 34-year-old officer said: “While I am pleased that justice has been handed out today, I have already been serving my sentence, having spent the past 21 months recovering from this cowardly and brutal attack – and there is still more recovery time for me to get through as I slowly rebuild my life.
“This horrific attack changed who I am. I have struggled with PTSD ever since.
Their actions have put me through so much physical and mental pain, and I really don’t recognise the person I was before it happened. “It left me fearful to go out and I have suffered recurrent flashbacks to the events of that night.
“I feel I have been left to suffer by perpetrators who have shown no remorse.
“Nobody should go out to work and expect to experience anything like this, but I would like to thank my colleagues and West Mercia Police and the Federation for their help and support along the way.”