A man who subjected a black officer to a hour-long tirade of racist abuse has been handed a suspended prison sentence.James Lawson, of Mount Ford, Tavistock, appeared at Plymouth Magistrates Court following an incident at Charles Cross police station on June 9 this year. Prosecutor Philip Sewell told the court how police had been called to an address in Chaddlewood Avenue in Plymouth to deal with an incident. Lawson, aged 28, had locked himself in a room and after he came out ten minutes later...
