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Viscount Astor's great-great-grandson spat sick in a policeman's eye when he was high on drugs and drunk off wine, a court heard today.
Frederick Astor, 19, hurled verbal abuse at three officers before vomiting in one of their faces at his father's country estate in the Cotswolds, magistrates' were told.
He also spat saliva at the two other constables after bingeing on alcohol and Tramadol, Oxford Magistrates' Court heard.
Viscount Astor's great-great-grandson Frederick spat sick in a policeman's eye when he was high on drugs and drunk off wine, a court heard today (pictured outside court)
Astor is the great-grandson of the 2nd Viscount Waldorf, who was a notable politician and newspaper proprietor in the early 1900s.
He is the son of Thomas Astor and they live at the sprawling 500-acre Merriscourt House in Churchill, near Chipping Norton.
The teenager is also related to Samantha Cameron via her stepfather William Astor, whose cousin, the celebrated publisher and editor David Astor is Frederick's grandfather.
PC Dyson told the court that when he arrived at the estate to treat Astor for a head injury the defendant spat vomit in his eyes.
He said: 'I have been
