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Any attack on emergency services personnel should have a minimum 5 year sentence end of story.
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Any? Verbal abuse (which can class as assault)? Off duty rumble in a pub, maybe normally a fine or a caution but the other chap was a paramedic, so that's five years, mate, if we can find a cell.
Hard cases make bad law. Which isn't to say that deliberate assaults on emergency responders shouldn't attract strong sentences, just that it needs proper definition, possibly as an aggravating factor like racial or homophobic assaults.