Oliver Mace from Newbury ordered to compensate police officer he assaulted

A MAN who denied assaulting police has been convicted at trial.

Oliver Mace appeared in the dock at Reading Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, August 28.

At a previous hearing the 24-year-old, of Dickens Walk, Newbury, pleaded not guilty to assaulting a police officer, identified only as PC Houghton, in the course of his duty in The Wharf, Newbury, on New Year’s Day.

But magistrates did not believe his account and, following a trial at Wednesday’s hearing, Mace, who was legally represented by Adonis Daniel, was convicted.

He was fined £400.

Mace was also ordered to pay £200 costs.

Finally, he was ordered to pay PC Houghton £50 compensation in lieu of an otherwise statutory victim services surcharge.