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Man in wheelchair threatened to spread disease with blood-soaked sock in Northallerton pub - Hambleton Today

A drunken wheelchair-bound man threatened people inside a pub with a metal bar and assaulted a police officer while threatening to spread a contagious disease by throwing a sock seeped in his own blood and bodily fluids, a court heard. Anthony Readman, 54, from Thirsk, had earlier been asked to leave the Durham Ox pub in Northallerton but returned a short time later where he got out of his wheelchair, stood up, brandished a metal bar and threate…
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hambletontoday.co.uk broke the news on Wednesday, August 5, 2026.
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