A WOMAN has been spared detention after being racially abusive to a doorman.
Angel Barnes also appeared before the courts for assaulting two people, with all offences occurring in Warrington.
The 22-year-old was charged with racially aggravated harassment, alarm or distress by words and two counts of assault by beating.
She pleaded guilty to the racially aggravated and first assault charges, but convicted after a trail of the second assault offence.
Details of the offending were given to Warrington Magistrates’ Court by Nigel Beeson, prosecuting for the Crown Prosecution Service, who spoke of how the first offences were committed on August 12 last year.
Barnes used racially aggravated threatening, abusive or disorderly words or behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress, and assaulted a man by beating him.
She also assaulted another man by beating him on September 1.
Magistrates remarked that the offences were so serious that only a custodial sentence could be justified.
They said that she committed unprovoked attacks of a serious nature and used racially abusive language to a doorman who was simply doing his job.
Magistrates also said that the defendant has a ‘flagrant disregard for court orders’, having offended while the subject of a community order and having a previous record of offending.
However, they determined that they could suspend the sentence after deeming she is a realistic prospect for rehabilitation.
Barnes, of Cleveland Road in Orford, was sentenced to six weeks detention suspended for 24 months.
She was also ordered to complete 30 rehabilitation activity requirement days and pay costs to the Crown Prosecution Service of £120 and compensation of £100.
Source – Warrington Guardian