A drunk mother-of-five scratched the inside of a police officer's mouth causing blood to drip down her cheek.
Not just on the one occasion - this fragile flower of femininity makes a career out of it:
She became aggressive with officers again on January 1, while she was still on bail. She spat at them and hit at least one in the face and another in the chest.
Brooks, of Medway Road in Sheerness, now has 13 convictions for attacks on emergency workers.She also admitted eight other offences in January this year in relation to the incident on New Year’s Day. They were three counts of assault by beating of an emergency worker, three counts of criminal damage, common assault on an emergency worker and one count of threatening behaviour.
So, if you were a visitor to this planet fresh out of the UFO and about to say ‘Take me to your leader’ you’d assume the justice system would crack down hard on this scofflaw this time. But no….
Magistrates also heard from a probation officer who interviewed Brooks who said the offences in 2023 happened after she’d been drinking a lot at the party and that she’d been upset as an ex-partner had tried to kill himself.
She also said Brooks had five children and two grandchildren and had borderline personality disorder and depression. She also had a disabled child to look after.
None of those things should be prompting leniency- in fact, rather than mitigation, they should all be classed as aggravating aspects.
The Chairman of the bench said: “Ms Brooks, you have a shocking record. Thirteen assaults on an emergency workers? Shocking is an understatement and we feel the offences do pass the custody threshold, but can be suspended.
Why? And just because it can, why should it?
"If you come before the courts again in that time, you will probably go to prison. Spitting at police is just absolutely awful.”
Why would she believe those, when nothing she’s done so far has resulted in jail time? The magistrate’s not fooling her, or me!
H/T: InspGadget via Twitter
2 comments:
I though that when they made 'assaulting an emergency worker' a specific offence, it was so it could be dealt with more harshly than assaulting a Joe on the street
Seems it's been about as effective as every other law they bring in. One day they'll stop making new laws and actually make the ones we have, count for something
"If you come before the courts again in that time, you will probably go to prison."
I think there's a "not" missing from that sentence.
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