A pregnant woman who attacked two police officers when she was arrested for attempted robbery was spared jail yesterday.
Raging Rachel Allan, 25, from Norton, who had a history of assaulting police, had to be handcuffed behind her back and put to the ground to subdue her.
Allan, who is three months pregnant, had 32 convictions for 61 offences for violence, drugs, shoplifting and a house burglary.
She had served a 30 months jail sentence for assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and when she was arrested last month on Stockton High Street she warned the two PCs before kicking them: ”Watch what happens now”.
Prosecutor Jenny Haigh told Teesside Crown Court that Allan was caught on CCTV at 2.20am on January 3 as she grabbed a woman’s shoulderbag and dragged her backwards in a failed robbery bid.
The victim, a barmaid who was walking to a pizza shop after finishing her shift, flagged down a police car and gave officers a description of Allan who fled the area.
They detained her but let her go. Allan then returned to the scene and the woman challenged her about the incident, but Allan said “It wasn’t me, the police spoke to me and they let me go.”
Mrs Haigh said that the woman knew that the area was covered by CCTV and she flagged down the police again and she pointed out Allan to them.
She kicked both officers on the shins as they were waiting for a police van to arrive to take her into custody.
Julian Gaskin, defending, said that Allan had suffered a drink and drugs relapse but she had been on bail with a curfew since January 5 without re-offending.
He said that she had told the officers that she was pregnant when they handcuffed her over the bonnet of a police car before putting her on the ground. She ended up with bruised arms and she had been worried about her unborn child.
While on bail she had been helped by a drugs organisation who put her on a drug reduction programme with Methadone and Subutex.
The judge Recorder Michael McKone told Allan: “There are just signs now that the support which you are receiving is working, and I do accept that you are putting drink and drugs behind you.
“The reality is that if you go back to taking heroin you will be put back in prison. Hopefully at the age of 25 you can put this dreadful start behind you. It’s up to you now, you have to take responsibility.”
Allan, of Norton Road, Norton, was given a 12 months jail sentence suspended for two years with 12 months supervision, a six months tagged curfew between 7pm and 6am and a £100 victim surcharge after she pleaded guilty to attempted robbery and two charges of assaulting police officers.
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