Passer-by Ashad Russell told police, according to the report, that Strother jumped "over the driver's door" of Bardes' patrol car, "landed on top of him" and began "beating" him violently.

A man who whipped a passer-by with a belt then stole a mobile phone in a “random attack” in the centre of Belfast has been jailed for 20 months. Jamie Smith (31), from Glenveagh Drive in ...