An independent unionist councillor has been convicted of assaulting a female police officer.
Henry Reilly (62) of Ballynahatten Road in Kilkeel, Co Down, sits on Newry, Mourne and Down District Council.
He was convicted yesterday of two counts of assaulting a female police officer at his home on September 30 2019.
He was also convicted of resisting two police officers in the execution of their duties.
Mr Reilly, who has represented the UUP, UKIP and the TUV, was fined £250 in respect of each charge.
Banbridge Magistrate's Court, sitting in Newry, heard that the officer was attacked after she and a colleague attended reports of an alleged domestic incident at Mr Reilly's home.
Two police officers spoke to Mr Reilly's wife who told them no complaint was being made.
Police told Mr Reilly, who had been sleeping on the sofa after drinking four beers and taking sleeping tablets and antibiotics, that he would have to leave the house for the night.
He was unwilling to do so and attacked the officer twice during a subsequent altercation and arrest.
