A man has been sentenced after deliberately driving into a police officer at the Cheadle Royal retail park.

19-year-old Harvey Bell had been in an Audi in the car park when police approached and asked him to stop the vehicle - as one female officer approached the windscreen, Bell drove at her, knocking her to the ground and driving over her legs.

Police had been investigating reports of class C drug use in a car park.

The female officer was left with injuries requiring hospital treatment, but has since physically recovered.

Bell (of Bennett Drive, Knutsford) has been sentenced to 31 months in a young offenders' institute, and was given a two-year driving ban which will take effect when he leaves the institute.

He had been arrested on 26 January 2025 (the day after the incident) and made no comment in his police interview. However, he went on to plead guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving and and possession of cannabis on 27 March 2025.

He was sentenced at Minshull Street Crown Court on Wednesday 4 June 2025.

In a powerful victim impact statement, the injured officer said: ""I will never forgive Bell for the upset he caused my family; he was the reason why my daughters received the dreaded phone call to say I had been hurt. A call no family wants to receive.

"What he did to me is permanently in the back of my mind, every call I go to, I feel the apprehension, the fear that any incident no matter how innocuous it appears, can end with being assaulted or hurt. This is an unseen result of Bell's assault on me."

Stockport Operational Policing Chief Inspector John Picton, said: "This incident was truly shocking and a terrifying ordeal for the frontline Response Police officer who sustained serious injuries.

"There was absolutely no need for this incident to have happened or to end in the traumatic way it did. It highlights how routine incidents attended by our frontline officers can quickly escalate into very dangerous situations."

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