Westrupp was later transported to the Emergency Department, where he kicked out at a different police officer tasked with helping him onto a hospital bed. Relief Magistrate Sarah Fitz, presiding, took the Islander’s previous convictions for assaulting police officers into account when delivering the court’s sentence. The Relief Magistrate opted to hand Westrupp a total sentence of nine months’ imprisonment for the two offences. “Having taken into account totality in setting these sentences, I am satisfied that a total sentence of nine months fairly reflects the overall offending.” “It sends a clear message that violence against those serving the public is, and always will be, unacceptable.”