Baby-faced yob, 19, who shouted ‘F*** you, I’ll assault you’ as she attacked cop & threatened him with brick walks free
A TEENAGE girl who kicked and threatened a PC with a brick has walked free after a judge admitted she had subjected her to a ”very soft” courtroom experience.
Lydia Robinson, 19, snatched a set of handcuffs from the officer and stuffed them down her trousers.
She then shouted: “F**k you! I’ll assault you if you come here to get the cuffs!”
The officer known only as PC 18282 Smith was also also kicked in the shins and threatened with a brick as he detained Robinson over a bust up at her mother’s home.
The teenager, from Little Hulton, Salford, Greater Manchester was later bailed but days before she was due to be sentenced for the assault she was convicted of criminal damage after smashing a window in a gang attack.
She had a previous conviction for assault.
At Manchester Crown Court, Robinson faced up to 12 months in youth custody after she admitted assaulting an emergency worker.
She was freed with a 12-month community order with a requirement to complete 20 rehabilitation activity days with probation workers.
In sentencing, Judge Sarah Johnston told her: “I know you have a distrust in the police due to previous experience, but they are there to serve our community and don’t deserve to be assaulted when they are on their way to work.
“PC Smith was responding to a complaint made in your name and when you arrived your actions raised the temperature of the environment.
“You accept that you have a very short fuse but with offences like these you could have easily got yourself sent to prison.
“I hope you feel thoroughly embarrassed with yourself and you owe both probation and your defence counsel a huge debt of gratitude that you weren’t also sentenced for resisting arrest and that you are not going to prison today.”
Before releasing Robinson from the dock, the judge added: “There is no unpaid work requirement to your sentence because I want you to focus on the rehabilitative activity.
“Although you have had a very soft experience here today, outside of court is an organisation that is built on authority, and you are going to have to show it respect otherwise you will come before me, and you will be sent to prison.”
Robinson became known to police after she played truant from Harrop Fold School in Bolton which featured in the Channel 4 fly-on-the-wall TV documentary Educating Greater Manchester.
She claimed to hold resentment to police due to the number of times officers had been called over the years to her family home following reports of anti social behaviour.
Prosecutor Simon Barrett told the court that trouble flared after Robinson’s abusive former partner Kieran Davies , 19, arrived at her mother’s home.
Robinson, who was staying with an uncle, then arrived at the house when she heard Davies was there.
Mr Barrett said: “The atmosphere became tense, and the police were called to the address by neighbours.
“The defendant and her family are known to have anti-police sentiments and when they arrived the defendant, in her own words, lost her temper, and lashed out at the police.
”She picked up a brick from the front garden and threatened to assault the attending officers if they come towards her family again.
“She then took the handcuffs of one of the attending officers when they were not looking, hid it inside her clothing and said: “F**k you! I’ll assault you if you come here to get the cuffs!”
“As PC Smith approached the defendant to try and arrest her, she leant forward and kicked him in the shins. He did not feel any pain from the assault and arrested the defendant. She was later released on bail.”
In mitigation, Robinson’s lawyer, Patrick Buckley said, “When police attended, she said the police were being heavy handed towards her mother and sister. She admits getting very angry and losing her temper as a result.
“She has a mistrust of the police after years of people calling them to her family address, when she believes that it is unwarranted.
“She has had a number of issues throughout her young life that provide an explanation for her anger. Her mother has experienced serious health problems in recent years, including being diagnosed for liver failure as a result of an alcohol dependency.
“She has not had much in terms of support. She didn’t attend school and instead simply walked out with no qualifications.
“However, she has told me she wished to be a midwife in the future once she has sorted herself out. She has no issues with drugs and alcohol. She also told me she doesn’t even smoke.
“She has a domestic abuse support worker that helps her out. She cannot currently stay at her mum’s address due to past incidents of her behaviour there but has the support of her father and brother in court with her today.
“I have to concede unless the path she is on is desisted, further convictions are possible.”