Jail for teen who slashed female officer with hunting knife

A teenage thug who slashed a police woman with a hunting knife has been jailed for three years. Byron Mason, 18, lunged at PC Jessica Hawkins during a routine stop and search in Bromley, south London, on February 8. PC Hawkins was in a police van with PC Oliver Beard when they spotted Mason and another male, who matched the descriptions of two youths involved in an earlier incident. The other man fled the scene, but the police officers were…