Pregnant police officer brutally kicked, punched by gang

LONDON: A pregnant British police officer has reportedly been kicked by a violent gang as she tried to protect her husband, also a fellow officer who was stabbed twice.

The two officers named Joanna and Jack Wilber have been nominated for a national police bravery award after being subjected to a “sustained attack” by a “pack of youths” as they tried to protect a member of the public while off duty.

The couple who work in Oldham with Greater Manchester Police were said to have suffered horrific injuries after confronting about nine people who had surrounded a woman screaming for help as she sat in a car.

While talking to the media, Joanna said that she tried to stop the assault as she saw her husband being attacked by members of the gang.

“I stood in front of Jack and I was pleading with them because you could see I was heavily pregnant. I was saying to them to go away, I’m pregnant. Just leave us alone,” she expressed.

“I was hoping they would just run off but they didn’t, they just continued to attack us. “They kicked and punched me. I was kicked that hard I had an imprint of a trainer on my thigh,” she continued.

Wilber, Joanna’s husband said, “I had been stabbed but I managed to chase them off.” He said, “I had to stay with the police to go through everything that happened.”

However, the officers had been nominated for a bravery award after suffering horrific injuries in the process of protecting a member of the public.