Hartlepool woman banned from leaving her home at night for three months after admitting assaults on three police officers

A wanted woman assaulted two policemen after they arrested her and put her in the back of a police van.
By Mark Payne
Published 5th Feb 2020, 06:00 BST
Updated 5th Feb 2020, 06:05 BST
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Courtney Hodgson, 22, lashed out at the officers by kicking them when they spotted her trying to hide something down her top, Teesside Magistrates Court heard.

Joanne Hesse, prosecuting, said Hodgson was picked up on October 18 last year after they recognised her as being wanted.

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Ms Hesse said: “When she failed to provide identification to back up a false name she had given, upon arrest she was then taken to the police van to be transported back to custody when one of the officers spotted her putting something down her top.

The case was dealt with at Teesside Magistrates Court.The case was dealt with at Teesside Magistrates Court.
The case was dealt with at Teesside Magistrates Court.

“She has kicked both officers as they tried to find out what she was concealing.”

She kicked one of the policemen in the shin and another on the arm.

Both said they felt ‘instant pain’.

Hodgson, of Barton Avenue, Hartlepool, also assaulted another police officer on January 8 after she was arrested for being drunk and disorderly in Tower Street.

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The case was heard at Teesside Crown Court.The case was heard at Teesside Crown Court.
The case was heard at Teesside Crown Court.

She pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly and three counts of assaulting an emergency worker.

It put her in breach of a conditional discharge previously imposed by the court for another offence of being drunk and disorderly in public from September 27 last year.

Stewart Haywood, defending, said in mitigation that none of the officers has been injured.

He said: “She was unhappy at the manner in which she was being handled by the police which is why she behaved in the way that she did.

“She was dragged rather forcibly from the van.”

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Mr Haywood added that during the incident Hodgson was injured herself when damage was caused to a fracture in her arm that had recently had a cast removed.

Magistrates ordered her to pay £100 compensation to each of the three police officers and gave her a 12-week curfew from 7pm-7am.

It is part of a 12-month community order which also includes having to do 25 rehabilitation activity days.

The bench said they had increased the length of the community order due to the assaults being on emergency workers.