Women ‘threaten to spit at police officers and infect them with coronavirus after they shut down house party’

Police have arrested three women after they allegedly threatened to spit at officers and infect them with coronavirus when a suspected house party was shut down.

Police were called to Edgeland Terrace, in Eastbourne, at around 9.45pm on Wednesday after being tipped off about a gathering inside a property.

When they arrived at the address officers were told they would be spat at and deliberately exposed to COVID-19.

One officer was then allegedly assaulted and suffered an injury to his head that required hospital treatment.

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Bayleigh Meadows, 21, unemployed, of Eastbourne, was arrested and charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and affray.

Millie Robinson, 21, unemployed, of Eastbourne, was arrested and charged with two counts of assaulting an emergency worker and affray.

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They are both due to appear before magistrates today.

Nicole Stonestreet, 20, unemployed, of Seaside, Eastbourne, has been charged with assaulting an emergency worker and affray.

She has been released on bail until a later date.