A drunken thug who kicked a female police officer so hard in the chest her breast implant almost exploded has been spared jail. 

Lee Deakin, 23, lashed out at PC Gina Spencer as he was arrested for being drunk and disorderly. 

As he lay handcuffed on the floor he booted PC Spencer causing her to fall backwards and was knocked out. 

Months after the attack she was examined by surgeons who discovered her breast implant, which she had inserted 15 years earlier, had become dislodged. 

Deakin attacked PC Spencer after becoming violent in Birmingham city centre at 4am on January 21 this year. 

Deakin, of Birmingham, admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm and was handed a 20-month prison sentence, suspended for two years. 

Recorder Adrian Reynolds also ordered him to carry out 200 hours unpaid work and pay PC Spencer £4,200 which she had to fork out to replace the implant. 

Sentencing him at Birmingham Crown Court on Monday (26/) Recorder Reynolds said: 
"You have come within an ace of throwing your life away. 

"You should think yourself fortunate and take advantage of the chance I have given you. 

"What you did on that day was completely unforgivable, it is absolutely appalling. 

"She was just doing her job, you were drunk and completely out of control. 

"I appreciate you did not intend to kick her. 

"She has suffered not just pain and discomfort, she has suffered humiliation of having to go back to the doctors to have an operation. 

"(She had) not been able to cuddle her on child properly. 

"It is absolutely appalling." 

Deakin, who earns £22,000-a-year as a coffee shop manager, was ordered to pay PC Spencer compensation at a rate of £400-a-month. 

Prosecutor Neil Ahuja said Deakin had been drinking with pals in Birmingham's Arcadian Centre when he got into a heated argument with one of his friends. 

When police arrived they attempted to calm him down but he told one officer: "I'll find you, don't worry, I'll find you," before making a threat towards the officer's children. 

As he was arrested for being drunk and disorderly Deakin ended up on the floor and, as PC Spencer came to assist colleagues, he kicked out, hitting her in the chest. 

Mr Ahuja said: "She moved backwards, she was bent over struggling to catch her breath. 

"She felt a sharp pain in her chest, she passed out for a relatively short period of time. 

"The initial suspicion was (the implant) had ruptured. 

"Examination by a specialist revealed it had not ruptured but become misshapen. 

"It had folded in on itself, the only way to remedy it was to fit a new implant." 

PC Spencer, who has worked for West Midlands Police for 22 years, had to wait three months for swelling to go down before an operation revealed the extent of her injuries. 

During that time PC Spencer, who is married with a child, said in a victim impact statement that she was in pain and terrified the implant may have ruptured. 

She said: "I looked physically different, I felt ugly. 

"I couldn't bear to look at myself in the mirror. 

"I had to wait weeks for test results and this was agonising." 

The court heard PC Spencer had not previously revealed to family, friends and colleagues that she had undergone breast augmentation surgery 15 years ago. 

But after the assault she was forced to reveal the procedure causing her embarrassment. 

She also said her family's finances had come under strain replacing the implant, the time she had taken off work and the fact she could not work overtime. 

Robin Morgan, defending, said: "The kick was a single kick, it was a kick out because he was being arrested. 

"It was a kick out he did intend but did not intend the impact to have such far-reaching implications it had. 

"He accepts full responsibility and has made no attempt to excuse or minimise that behaviour."