A man has been charged in connection with the assault of shop staff and police officers, the verbal abuse of a nurse and theft in Southampton.

Anthony Perryman, 43, of Southampton Street, has been charged with two assaults, theft, attempted theft, using threatening words or behaviour and resisting a police constable.

The incidents are alleged to have happened over a five-day period.

On Thursday, February 22, a nurse in her 20s at Southampton General Hospital was verbally abused.

On Tuesday, February 27, items worth £55 were taken from the Tesco store on Southampton High Street and three staff members were assaulted in the process.

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That same day, a woman in her 50s working at a stall at Kingsland Market, St. Mary’s Street was verbally abused, and an attempt was made to steal a till.

The woman was pushed over in the process but was not injured.

A spokesperson for Hampshire police said: “The incident was communicated to police officers via the ShopWatch radio and (a man) was stopped and arrested in the Marlands Shopping Centre on Above Bar Street.”

Two officers were assaulted in the process. One had to be taken away from frontline duties as a result.  

Perryman has been remanded into custody and is due to appear at Southampton Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.