A woman who spat in the face of a police officer attempting to search her was jailed at Lincoln Crown Court on Thursday.
Romayne Thompson had been arrested for breach of bail conditions and was taken into custody at the city’s West Parade police station where she became violent.
Richardo Childs, prosecuting, said: “She was shouting incoherently and saying she was going to collect the CCTV and everyone was going to lose their jobs.
“The officers tried to carry out a strip search but during this she spat at the officer and hit her in the corner of her eye.
“She was told on several occasions to stop spitting. Unfortunately she did not.”
Thompson was eventually restrained and the search was carried out.
The victim PC Kathryn Baines complained that she had a lot of spit in her hair and some of the spit went close to her mouth.
The court was told that Thompson has hepatitis C.
Mr Childs said that Thompson was originally arrested three days earlier after an incident in which she smashed a saucepan over the head of a 70-year-old man, leaving him with blood pouring from a wound.
Thompson, who at the time was living with the victim John Tasker at an address in Fairfax Street, Lincoln, asked him to sell a heater in order to get cash for drugs.
He went to Cash Converters but they refused to purchase the item and when he returned to the property without money she attacked him.
Police were called to the house and Thompson was arrested. She was taken into custody but became violent during an attempt to take her fingerprints. She went on to hit and slap the civilian custodian.
Thompson, 28, of no fixed address, admitted assaulting emergency worker Kathryn Baines by beating as a result of the incident on July 14 this year.
She also admitted assaulting John Tasker causing him actual bodily harm and assaulting emergency worker Elizabeth Cole by beating on July 11.
Thompson was jailed for 18 months. She was also given an indefinite restraining order banning her from contacting Mr Tasker and from visiting his home address.
James Gray, in mitigation, described Thompson as a vulnerable woman who has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
He told the court that since being remanded into custody she has made “remarkable” progress in sorting out her life but accepted she faces a prison sentence for what she did.
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GPs across Lincolnshire and Yorkshire have signed an open letter to their patients calling for support at a time when the profession is in crisis.
With GP numbers dropping and patient numbers increasing, many people are not being able to get through on the phone and struggling to get an appointment.
The campaign group behind the letter – Rebuild General Practice, want the government to recruit and retain more GPs before the situation gets worse.
They acknowledge that “general practice is in crisis” and added that it is because of “decades of underfunding, neglect, broken government promises and political contempt for you – our patients – that this system is fractured.”
Dr Abdur-Rauff Mahroof, director at The Humberside Group of Local Medical Committees Ltd, told BBC Look North that staff have been suffering verbal abuse.
He said they are seeing a a mental health crisis among receptionists and doctors and “it’s got to a point where someone needs to have that conversation with patients”.
A 45-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods after 10 vehicles were taken from a premises north of Lincoln.
Staff at West View Farm in Ingham arrived at work on Wednesday, 29th June to find multiple units had been broken into and cars and vans stolen.
Suspects forced entry into the location and smashed open a key safe to obtain the keys for each vehicle, before making their escape with the vehicles.
Vehicles included an Audi car, and several Ford and Peugeot vans.
Investigating officers sprang into action and began searching for the vehicles, locating six of the 10 vehicles at a single location.
The final four were quickly located by police, meaning all the vehicles were found in a 24-hour period.
The success came off the back of a concerted effort from our local team who scoured the area to make sure the vehicles were found as quickly as possible.
The 45-year-old has been released under investigation as our enquiries continue.
If you know anything that you think might help us in our investigation, you contact us
By calling 101 quoting incident 52 of 29 June.
By emailing [email protected] quoting incident 52 of 29 June in the subject line.
If you wish to remain anonymous, you can report via the independent charity CrimeStoppers on 0800 555 111 or online.
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