Police release picture of a woman who kicked out at three officers during a call-out in South Yorkshire

Sheffield Crown Court heard on December 15 how Mandy Johnson, aged 34, of Birk Avenue, Kendray, Barnsley, kicked-out at three officers after she was arrested under suspicion of assault and was verbally abusive to police at Worsbrough Dale, in Barnsley.

Katy Rafter, prosecuting, said: “There were a number of people in the street including this defendant and it seemed there had been a row between a number of people.”

Ms Rafter added Johnson was arrested on suspicion of committing an assault based on information they had received but she became obstructive.

Johnson told police she was pregnant and as police tried to help her into a police van she kicked an officer in the chest, kicked another in the thigh and as attempts were made to apply leg restraints she kicked a third officer’s arm, according to Ms Rafter.

During the journey to the police station she insulted one of the three officers and used homophobic language while insulting another one of the three officers.

Johnson pleaded guilty to three counts of assaulting an emergency worker and admitted using threatening behaviour after the incident on November 19.

She also admitted breaching a conditional discharge which had previously been imposed for two shop thefts and for being drunk-and-disorderly, and she admitted breaching a suspended sentence order previously imposed for two counts of assaulting an emergency worker and for being drunk-and-disorderly.

Bianco Brasoveanu, defending, said: “The defendant has expressed her regret and remorse for her actions by her guilty pleas entered at the first available opportunity.”

She added there had been a disturbance at the address and the defendant who suffers with anxiety and depression had been assaulted.

Ms Brasoveanu said: “She became tearful and ashamed, and in her own words was ‘disgusted’, and the comments she made are not opinions she would express, and in her own words she said ‘that was not her’.”

Judge Sarah Wright told Johnson she had engaged in disgraceful abusive, violent behaviour assaulting three police officers while using appalling homophobic language.

She sentenced Johnson to 52 weeks of custody.

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