actual bodily harm
Britishnoun
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The court heard Sekanjako, who was born in Uganda, had a previous conviction for assault occasioning actual bodily harm from 2013.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2023
But a jury at Snaresbrook Crown Court found her not guilty of two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2023
Nick Stanage, representing Davison's brother and sister, asked him "The decision not to treat the skatepark case as actual bodily harm was a decision that failed to protect the public - do you agree?"
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2023
Prosecutors argued that PC Bettley-Smith, while not contributing to Mr Atkinson's death, caused him actual bodily harm.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2022
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 Algot Lange
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