actual bodily harm

British

noun

ABH. criminal law injury caused by one person to another that interferes with the health or comfort of the victim

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A jury found PC Richard Williams, 43, not guilty of assault causing actual bodily harm and a second charge of intentional strangulation following a seven-day trial in Caernarfon.

From BBC • May 8, 2025

In 2022, PC Bettley-Smith, of West Mercia Police, was acquitted at a retrial of actual bodily harm.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2023

Nick Price of the CPS Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division said Joshua Bowles, 29, will also be charged with causing actual bodily harm.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2023

PC Bettley-Smith, 31, had denied assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

From BBC • Jul. 2, 2021

You have to be constantly alive to the danger of disagreeable annoyance from the pests that abound, or of actual bodily harm from animals of the reptilian order.

From In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians by Lange, Algot

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