Rasbert Turner, Gleaner Writer
Spanish Town:
A nurse who allegedly attacked two members of the Island Special Consta-bulary Force (ISCF) in Spanish Town on Saturday, after the car in which she was a passenger was stopped by the police, find herself facing several charges. She is 40-year-old Hermine Richards-Palmer, of Tryall Estate, Spanish Town.
The police told The Gleaner that about 10:30 a.m., they stopped a driver along French Street, for breaches of the Road Traffic Act.
A female member of the party went up to the vehicle and was talking to the driver, when Palmer allegedly came out of the front passenger seat, grabbed on to the police officer's left hand and twisted it. Another police officer came to the rescue of her colleage and was attacked and punched repeatedly over her body by Palmer, who was eventually subdued and taken to the Central Village Police Station. Palmer was charged with assault occasioning bodily harm, assaulting police, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
Both officers were subsequently treated at the Spanish Town Hospital.
Palmer is booked to appear in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court tomorrow.
