A woman has been ordered to pay compensation to six police officers and paramedics who she bit and spat at while violently resisting arrest.
Teejay Collins, 29, repeatedly bit and kicked officers and spat in the face of an ambulance worker after being taken to A&E.
Police had responded to a discontinued 999 call from her home address Edinburgh Way in Thetford on February 16 when she fell over drunk in the kitchen.
Norwich Magistrates’ Court heard she had become “very aggressive” towards police threatening to bite and had to be restrained when she began spitting.
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Collins, who has 59 previous offences, including 12 for violence, pleaded guilty to assault of emergency workers.
Lucy Brakewell, mitigating, said she was ashamed of her “unpleasant and terrible conduct”.
She said it had occurred shortly after a family bereavement and that she had dialled 999 after “self medicating with alcohol”.
Magistrates ordered she pay £100 compensation to each of the six victims.
She was also sentenced to a 12 month community order requiring rehabilitation days, 150 hours unpaid work and an alcohol abstinence monitoring tag.
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