A HOMELESS man with tuberculosis who spat at medical staff has been convicted of breaching an antisocial behaviour order.

David Goodwin, 50, had gone to the Luther Street Medical Centre in Oxford, on the afternoon of January 7 to take his daily dose of tablets for his infectious condition.

But a jury at Oxford Crown Court heard that after he took the drugs he spat two feet away from the three nurses who were with him.

Naomi Perry, prosecuting, said Goodwin had also behaved aggressively and had stared in an intimidating way at one of the female nurses.

The prosecution said this was in breach of an Asbo that banned him from threatening, abusing and harassing people, coughing or spitting at any person or trying to spread TB.

The jury heard Goodwin had been given the order by Oxford magistrates in October last year after he had gone into Oxford City Council offices and deliberately coughed over five members of staff in March 2014.

Ms Perry said that after his diagnosis in February 2014, Goodwin had told nurse team leader Robin Feast at Luther Street Medical Centre he was like a “dangerous weapon” and he would look up how to spread the contagious disease.

During a two-day trial this week, Goodwin claimed he was choking on the tablets he had just taken and had not deliberately spat at the nurses.

But the jury took just over an hour to find him guilty yesterday.

Judge Patrick Eccles asked for a presentence report and Goodwin was remanded to appear again on May 22.