‘I thought cop was a crackhead’

Basildon

A thug who stabbed a plain clothes policeman twice with a 12-inch hunting knife told a court he thought the officer was a crack addict who was about to attack him. Andrew Beadie, 20, allegedly slashed at the officer’s wrists with the Rambo-style blade, calling him a ‘f*cking pussy’ before jamming it twice into his stomach. The violence broke out when Beadie demanded ‘Are you staring at my bird?’ as the officer sat on a wall outside a pub, the…

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