By Sammie Jones-
An unruly woman has been jailed for 22 months and handed a five-year Criminal Behaviour Order for a “disgraceful and shameful” catalogue of offences against a security guard, hospital staff and police officers.
Bridget Mtola was heavily intoxicated when she committed a spate of assaults on the emergency workers and racially threatened and insulted them between November last year and May.
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Mtola, 30, of Cliffe Terrace, which runs parallel with Otley Road, Shipley, had been remanded in New Hall Prison, near Wakefield, for five months when she was locked up on Tuesday.
Her barrister Camille Morland agreed that the nuisance female was “a menace when she’s in alcohol,” saying there was no mitigation for her behaviour.
Prosecutor David Ward highlighted seven separate committals to the court for sentence covering a range of offences from threatening behaviour to shop theft, being drunk and disorderly, and assaulting and/or insulting a doctor, nurses, police officers and a security guard.
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The spate of offences began on November 27 when Mtola turned up drunk at Grattan Studios, a residential block of flats in Sunbridge Road, central Bradford.
She was abusive aftershe was denied access, smashing a bottle of vodka on the ground.
She also randomly pressed buzzers, irritating and annoying residents, jurors heard .
She pushed her way in and ran into a lift, using racially aggravated threatening behaviour when she was arrested.
The violent brute also punched two nurses to the back of the head, punching a doctor in the face and kicking a paramedic in the stomach.
The court heard that Mtola also urinated in an ambulance twice.
Mtola had six previous convictions for 17 similar offences, the court heard.
“She is a nuisance in Bradford town centre and has been banned from Bradford Royal Infirmary,” Mr Ward said.
Miss Morland told the court “she is patently a nuisance” with no memory of committing the offences.
Yet in conference, Mtola had presented as “humble, polite, calm and insightful.”
“She can’t explain at all why she behaves as she does.
“She has to keep off alcohol,” Miss Morland said.
Judge Ahmed Nadim labelled Mtola’s behaviour “disgraceful and shameful.”
It was made worse because she was being offensive, threatening and violent towards people who were trying to help her.
Mtola had “spurned and rejected” previous attempts by the courts to help her.
“You are unable or unwilling to learn from non-custodial measures,” Judge Nadim told her.
He jailed her for a total of 22 months and made a five-year Criminal Behaviour Order to protect the public in Bradford from her.
Woman jailed for ‘disgraceful and shameful’ offences against security guard, hospital staff and police.
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