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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/police-snowball-man-gets-curfew.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A man has been handed a 14-day curfew for hitting a policeman with a snowball during the recent wintry weather" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-police-snowball-man-gets-curfew.jpg" alt="A man has been handed a 14-day curfew for hitting a policeman with a snowball during the recent wintry weather"/></a></p>
<p>A man who threw a snowball at a police officer has been handed a 14-day curfew.</p>
<p>Dean Smith, 31, was arrested by Derbyshire Police at his home in Swadlincote three days after he threw the snowball early in December.</p>
<p>He was later charged with common assault and pleaded guilty before Derby magistrates, a Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) spokesman confirmed. Smith was handed a 14-day curfew and ordered to pay £85 costs.</p>
<p>The spokesman said: &#8220;It was the prosecution&#8217;s case that this was not a trivial, playful act of throwing a snowball as a joke, but that it was thrown deliberately, and aggressively, to satisfy a grudge held by Mr Smith against the victim.</p>
<p>&#8220;The CPS considered an alternative to prosecution, such as a conditional caution, but decided this was not appropriate due to Mr Smith&#8217;s previous convictions, including assault and obstructing a police officer.</p>
<p>&#8220;It appeared that diverting Mr Smith from court would not address his behaviour in a way that was likely to prevent future offending. In these circumstances, CPS Derbyshire decided that the facts should be presented to the magistrates&#8217; court to allow them to decide how this case should be resolved.</p>
<p>&#8220;Mr Smith pleaded guilty and during sentencing the magistrate said the case had been properly brought.&#8221;</p>
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