Lout smashed ex’s window after they split
Woman harassed former partner
A woman convicted of child neglect has been spared jail again – for terrorising her boyfriend after they split.
Charline Woods, 38, previously dodged a prison term for locking a five-yearold in a house alone for hours, forcing the screaming youngster to batter the front door with a hammer in a bid to get help.
And she has now avoided another jail sentence after being convicted of harassing ex-boyfriend John Shirley.
Paisley Sheriff Court heard she went to his home last March, repeatedly shouting and swearing and kicking the front door.
She managed to force entry to the property and then smashed one of the windows.
She was released on an undertaking to attend court over the offences, with a condition that she did not enter his home street.
But she breached it in June last year when she went to the street in question.
She returned to the dock to learn her fate, after sentencing had been deferred for her to be of good behaviour.
Sheriff Tom McCartney said: “I have to look at the nature of the offence.
“This involved smashing a window and forcing entry to a house.
“This has to be marked with a penalty, or punishment, in some way.
“I am going to impose unpaid work for the benefit of the community.”
He placed Woods, of Renfrew, on a 12-month Community Payback Order, telling her to carry out 60 hours’ unpaid work, reduced from 90 as she admitted her guilt.
He said he did not think a Non-Harassment Order, banning her from approaching or contacting her ex, was necessary as she had been on bail for over a year with no further incidents.
In 2019 Woods was spared prison over the child neglect case.
The court heard she wilfully neglected, abandoned and exposed the youngster to danger, treating her “in a manner likely to cause her unnecessary suffering or injury to health”.
The youngster was locked in Woods’ “extremely messy” flat in Paisley and left unattended for nearly three hours.
The child, who can’t be named for legal reasons, was left alarmed and distressed at being locked in Woods’ property alone, and used a hammer that was lying on the kitchen floor to batter the front door.
She admitted the youngster was left “with access to electrical items, household items and a hammer, which the child did take possession of and use to repeatedly strike the front door”. She also placed the child at risk of injury by leaving them able to get hold of and use the hammer.
She was given unpaid work as her punishment for that offence.
I am going to impose unpaid work for the benefit of the community