Justin Jackson (28) doused eight police officers with petrol has been sentenced to three years and nine months in prison. He is from Basildon and was sentenced earlier this week after the horrific incident on Sunday 5th May 2019.
Officers had responded to reports that a motorbike was being driven dangerously. After an 8-mile pursuit, the rider of the motorbike was cornered by officers as he tried to flee in Ward Close, Basildon.
The rider tried to fight with the officers who were forced to deploy their tasers in a bid to overpower the suspect. But as officers grappled with the suspect, a hostile crowd of between 20-30 people started to taunt and hurl abuse at the officers.
One woman threatened the officers with a hammer before Jackson ran towards them carrying a watering can full of petrol. As the officers were struggling with the rider of the bike, Jackson doused them with petrol before running away.
As the officers battled against the effects of having petrol thrown in their eyes and mouths, members of the crowd started to shout: ‘light them up’.
Two officers were hospitalised as a result of their injuries as the officers on the scene requested urgent assistance. In total, around 90 officers swarmed the area to prevent further serious harm to their colleagues.
PC Andrew Bird, PC Matthew Cutts and Chief Inspector Jonathan Baldwin were all at the scene and have spoken openly about the events that unfolded that day.
In a BBC documentary, Critical Incident, which aired on Monday, September 28, the officers looked back on what happened.
PC Bird said he is used to people “shouting and swearing and telling us that we’re idiots”, but nothing could prepare him for the events that took place on Sunday, May 5.
He said: “Out the corner of my eye I saw a gentleman appear from down one of the alleyways. He was just sprinting full speed towards where we were.”
PC Bird ran towards the man to try and intercept him, but they collided and fell to the floor.
“I was pretty much at the bottom of the pile,” PC Bird said. “You’ve got officers trying to get him off of me; he had his arms wrapped around my legs trying to keep hold of me.
“It was as I was trying to control this gentleman who had run out of the middle of nowhere that this other chap has appeared with a watering can,” PC Bird added.
PC Matthew Cutts then stepped in to fend off the new attacker.
PC Cutts didn’t know what was in the watering can, but his initial thoughts were that it could have been acid.
He said: “I could smell petrol, so I sort of fumbled around to get my baton out, but once I’ve got it I’ve put it behind my head and just struck him in line with my training.
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