A POWYS pensioner who hit a police officer in the neck after she was arrested has been told by a magistrate: "We don’t want to see you again."
Hilary Parsons, 74 and of Pant Y Berth in Berriew, pleaded guilty to beating an emergency worker at Welshpool Magistrates Court on Tuesday, October 8.
Prosecutor Helen Tench told the court that on September 23 in Llanfair Caereinion, Parsons had been arrested for a different, undisclosed offence by officers.
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Mrs Tench said that while in the back of the police van, the defendant – who was convicted of a similar offence in June this year – shouted at PC Barratt and said: ‘‘I will hit you and you can serve me notice."
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She then hit him twice in the neck but initially denied assaulting the officer and claimed that she was provoked into hitting him so that he could arrest her.
Geraint Parry, defending, told chairman of the bench Stephen Pembroke that on the day of her arrest, Parsons had failed in an attempt to reconcile with her husband and had been left upset.
He added that his client was "surprised that police were at her property" when she returned as she was to be arrested for a different offence.
He told the bench that assaulting an emergency worker should be treated seriously but added that Parsons was "deeply sorry" for the incident and said that recklessness because of alcohol had played a part.
Mr Parry added: “She is determined to solve her alcohol issues and out of drink is very calm and nice.”
Mr Pembroke, sentencing, told Parsons that her previous conviction in June this year had informed the punishment she was to receive this time.
He said: “We have dealt with this on the fact that you have a previous conviction for this.
“When we get older we should get wiser and this has to stop. No one got hurt but you shouldn’t do this.
“We don’t want to see you here again.”
Parsons was fined £180 by magistrates and ordered to pay £85 in costs and a £72 victim surcharge.
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