Conman jailed for offering baking soda to police officer

A conman attacked a police officer who tried to arrest him for selling baking soda in Soho for £40 a line. Sidique Govinden, 23, approached the plain clothes officer on Dean Street in the early hours and asked if he ‘wanted girls’ before offering him cocaine. When the policeman tried to arrest Govinden he swung a punch at face, Southwark Crown Court heard. Prosecutor Alexandra Boshell said: ‘This was the early hours of the morning, there were plain clothes police…