Covid cougher’s horrendous attack

A knifeman who ‘used Covid-19 as a weapon’ while coughing on police after breaking his ex-girlfriend’s leg in a ‘vicious, sustained’ attack was jailed for three and a half years. Darren Rafferty, 45, lunged at Kerry Manning with a blade, slashing her across the arm in a ‘horrendous’ onslaught on 24 March. He stamped on her knee repeatedly and coughed on three officers when police arrived at the scene in Gainsborough Road, Dagenham, east London. Rafferty hurled abuse and claimed…