A 23-YEAR-OLD woman who assaulted a police officer after drinking four and a half bottles of Lambrini and half a bottle of vodka has been fined £215.
Appearing before Llandrindod Magistrates Court on Thursday, January 26, Natalie Kaye Whatmough, of Brecon, admitted assaulting Sergeant Matthew Price during an incident on New Year’s Day.
Helen Tench, prosecuting, said that officers were on duty at around midnight when they spotted two women and a man involved in a fight.
Sgt Price intervened and Whatmough struck him to his right eye, the court heard.
Whatmough was arrested and cautioned before she apologised, saying she was ‘very drunk’.
Ms Tench said Whatmough had consumed four pints, three ‘Aftershock’ shots, half a bottle of vodka, and four and a half bottles of Lambrini, and could not remember the fight.
But she did remember apologising to the policeman.
Colonel Timothy Van Rees, mitigating, said Whatmough had celebrated the arrival of 2012 ‘not wisely but far too well’.
“She was not responsible for the altercation,” he said.
“She was not in full possession of her faculties but she apologised profoundly.
“She has only as dim recollection in the light of dawn.”
Magistrates fined Whatmougth £65 for the offence, £50 compensation to Sergeant Price, £85 costs and a £15 victim surcharge, totalling £215.