Man jailed for breaking PC's jaw and eye socket

A man who broke a police officer's jaw, eye socket and cheekbone during a routine traffic stop has been jailed for more than four years.

Tyler McQuarrie, of Baxter Road, Watford, admitted grievous bodily harm and a string of drugs offences at St Albans Crown Court on Thursday.

Hertfordshire Police said the 26-year-old punched the officer in an unprovoked incident when he was stopped at Hornhill Road, Maple Cross, on 21 October last year. He was arrested in Luton the next day.

The officer's life has been changed "physically, mentally and professionally", the Police Federation said after the case.

McQuarrie was jailed for 23 months for GBH and was given 29 months for possession with intent to supply cocaine, to run consecutively.

He was given six months for possession with intent to supply cannabis, to run concurrently. There was no separate penalty for the possession of cannabis.

Hertfordshire Police Federation chairman Luke Mitchell said: "This was a deeply serious and entirely unprovoked assault.

"The force used against him caused significant and lasting injury."

He said the officer's life had been "changed in every respect – physically, mentally, and professionally – as a result of one moment of senseless violence".

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