Watch This "I thought I was going to die": Police officer relives moment he was brutally attacked in powerful video By Matthew Calderbank , Lucinda Herbert Comment Published 14th Aug 2024, 15:34 BST Updated 15th Aug 2024, 05:30 BST Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276 Visit Shots! now This video More videos Shocking body-cam footage shows the moment a police officer nearly bled to death after he was assaulted in the line of duty. Lancashire Police released the eye-opening video (click to play above) of the incident to illustrate the risks officers face on a daily basis, and how quickly a night can take a turn for the worse. As a result of being knocked to the ground by a drunken assailant, PC Ashley Aspinall suffered a life-threatening head injury, including bruising to the brain.
At one point Ashley and his distraught colleagues feared he might die at the scene. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Keep up with the latest new videos with the Shots! Newsletter. Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more.
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He ended up being in hospital for 11 days and it was a further four months before he was able to return to the job he loves – being a response officer in the resort. Even then he had to spend some time on restricted duties. PC Ashley Aspinall in hospital after a sustaining serious head wound while on duty | Lancashire Police ‘I thought I was going to die’ PC Aspinall said: “I remember my thoughts at the time where I was genuinely convinced that I was going to die and had mentally made peace with that.
I thought about the good experiences I had had in life and gave up on myself in that moment. The only thing that kept me going was thinking about my daughter and seeing her again.” PC ‘relives’ brutal attack PC Aspinall recalls, in the video, hearing the ‘fear in [the] voices’ of the paramedics who tended to him, outside a bar in Blackpool town centre.
He added: “Since the incident, I keep reliving it in my head trying to understand if there is anything I did that could have triggered this incident and I honestly believed that I didn’t...
I don’t believe any of my actions that day warranted this level of injury.” PC Ashley Aspinall with the serious head wound sustained while on duty in Blackpool | Lancashire Police PC Ashley’s attacker spared jail Ian Scott, 50, of Cavendish Road, Bispham, was arrested and later charged with a Section 18 Assault and assaulting a police officer. He pleaded guilty to a Section 20 wounding of an emergency service worker.
Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Read More 'Exceptionally dangerous' drug driver in uninsured Audi leads police on 30-minute chase Drug dealer found with van full of cannabis worth £430,000 runs away from police officers Phone thief who snatched 24 mobiles in a morning crime spree on e-bike has been jailed He admitted those offences and appeared in the dock at Preston Crown Court last month (July 30) where he was given a 24-month suspended sentence. He was also ordered to complete a 120-day alcohol abstinence requirement, complete 15 Rehabilitation Activity Requirement days, pay £1,500 compensation, and undertake 200 hours of unpaid work. You can hear more from PC Ashley Aspinall on how the near fatal assault affected his life in our full report here.
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