A drunken thug who attacked health workers and public during hospital rampage is spared jail

A man who admitted attacking six people including three nurses and a paramedic at Leigh Infirmary has been spared jail.
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Martin Wilding, 37, of Wenborough Close, Leigh, had been due to stand trial for the string of attacks on Rory Robert, Paul Frogatt, nurses Anne Freakley, Nichola Willshire and Jill Mathieson and ambulance worker Neil Haselden on May 25 last year.

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But he later changed all his pleas to guilty and a Bolton Crown Court judge gave him a six-month custodial sentence but suspended it for 12 months.

He was also ordered to complete a nine-month course for people with a drink problem and 20 days of rehabilitation activities while paying a £1,000 fine.