A ‘DISGRACEFUL’ thug who attacked police and community support officers in Northwich town centre - before screaming, ‘section me, section me’ - has won a cut in his sentence.

Bradley Neild, 21, snapped an officer’s finger and sunk his teeth into another’s leg during a confrontation that left on-lookers shocked - weeks after he had attacked another cop.

Neild, of Weaver Road, Moulton, was caged for two years at Chester Crown Court in August, after he admitted counts of inflicting actual bodily harm and assault.

But three senior judges at London’s Appeal Court today upheld a sentence challenge by Neild - saying his sentence was ‘excessive’ and cutting it to 16 months.

Lord Justice McCombe said Neild got into a row with a police officer after he had been spotted arguing with another man in Northwich town centre at about 3pm on April 30.

Neild was abusive and aggressive and was warned to stop swearing or he would be arrested.

But he continued to confront the officer and became violent.

A struggle ensued as up to eight officers tried to subdue Neild, with five of them injured in the scuffle.

During the course of the contretemps, Neild repeatedly banged his own head on the ground and shouted, ‘section me, section me’.

On being taken to the police station, he remained in ‘an agitated state’ and headbutted a door frame, the judge said.

The scramble left one officer with a fractured little finger, another with a bite wound on the leg and one with a red mark on the neck, while two more were badly shaken.

Just weeks before, Neild had launched an attack on a different officer.

He was handed a short custodial sentence in July, after he was convicted of assaulting a constable over that incident. He had previous convictions for motoring offences.

A pre-sentence report suggested Neild suffered from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and ranked him as a medium risk of causing future harm to the public and the police.

On sentencing him, the Crown Court judge described Neild’s behavour as ‘quite disgraceful’ and said a custodial term was ‘inevitable’.

However his lawyers argued today that the judge failed to give enough credit for Neild’s guilty pleas and passed too heavy a punishment.

Lord Justice McCombe, sitting with Mr Justice MacDuff and Judge Anthony Morris QC, said: “Overall, we believe there is some force in these points.

“We have concluded that the sentence, overall, was indeed excessive.”

With a shaven head and wearing a shirt and tie, Neild watched from the dock as the judge reduced his sentence by a third.