Published date: 02 December 2015 |
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A WOMAN fought with police when she was arrested and bit a female officer’s knee during a struggle.
Sally Samantha Wood, 19, falsely claimed she had HIV and screamed gratuitous abuse at officers, who had been concerned for her welfare because of her blood loss.
Flintshire Magistrates Court heard how she injured her arm when she and her boyfriend broke the window of an unoccupied house, hoping to sleep for the night.
But neighbours raised the alarm. They fled out of a back window when police arrived, and tried to escape in the darkness via local back gardens.
The police air support unit helicopter joined in the search and when Wood was approached because of concern about the gash she had to her arm, she became abusive and violent.
A number of officers went to hospital to be checked out and one officer was bitten to the knee, said prosecutor Rhian Jackson.
Wood, who was staying at the nearby Sunray Hostel in Mold Road, Connah’s Quay, received a suspended youth custody sentence yesterday after she admitted assaulting three officers in the execution of their duty, criminal damage to a house window in Howard Street, and a public order offence.
District Judge Gwyn Jones said her behaviour was “totally and utterly inappropriate”.
She had used significant force upon officers and the sentence would help her get the necessary skills to “think before you act”.
Wood received a 90-day sentence, suspended for a year and was ordered to undergo 20 days of rehabilitation.
She was ordered to pay £100 each to three police officers “for the trauma she caused them” with £85 prosecution costs, an £80 surcharge and a £150 criminal courts charge.
The court heard the alarm was raised at 11.45pm on November 14.
Neighbours told how two people were breaking into a house in Howard Street.
Officers arrived and found a broken window and blood and discovered the defendant and a man inside.
Police forced an entry through the front door but the two left via a rear window and made good their escape.
Other officers contained the rear garden areas and he helicopter was called in.
Wood was seen to jump a fence onto the pavement and officers approached concerned for her welfare because of the blood she was losing from the gash to the arm. But she punched at an officer and tried to claw at his eyes and during the struggle he had blood on his face and lips.
Other officers tried to restrain her and she called a female officer a bitch and a slag.
The defendant said to her: “I hope you die.”
She was shouting that she had HIV, screamed abuse and told the female officer she would rape her husband.
Wood bit the officer to the left knee which caused extreme pain.
She continued to scream abuse as she was being restrained and a third officer was assaulted when she scratched her hand.
Leg restraints were placed on her and she was placed in a police van and taken to hospital, where she continued to be abusive.
Interviewed, Wood said she was at the Sunray Hostel, was too late arriving back and decided to sleep in a house nearby which was to let.
It was un-occupied and un-furnished and but for the intervention of the police she would have simply slept there.
She cut her arm getting in and ran off because she did not want to be arrested.
In interview, she agreed she had falsely said she had HIV which she accepted had been a disgusting thing to say in view of the fear
that would cause to injured officers.
She had been drinking and was not used to alcohol.
Victoria Handley, defending, said it was appreciated it was a serious matter where all sentencing options would be considered.
But she asked that the court draw back from immediate custody
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