Two women among three charged with assaulting emergency worker after migrant boat protest

Three people have been charged with assaulting an emergency worker following protests in Gosport as a boat carrying migrants was rescued at sea.

Officers from Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary were sent to the town on Tuesday to police a peaceful protest.

Police arrested six people, and on Wednesday said three individuals had been charged.

Shannon Dodds, 32, of Gosport, has been charged with two counts of assault by beating of an emergency worker.

Sally Pearson, 31, also from Gosport, has been charged with assault by beating of an emergency worker and a racially aggravated public order offence.

Both have been remanded into custody to appear at Portsmouth Magistrates' Court on Thursday.

Toby Matthews, 33, of Forton Road, Gosport, has been charged with common assault of an emergency worker. He has been bailed to appear at Portsmouth Magistrates' Court on 9 November.

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