Mum jailed for vile attack on QA staff
Aggressive patient bit, kicked and shouted abuse at hospital workers
A MUM-OF-THREE has been jailed for 16 weeks after biting and kicking NHS staff and shouting abuse at nurses.
Shannon-Leigh Williams was at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth for foot surgery but became ‘aggressive and extremely unpleasant’ over two days.
Williams, pictured, was jailed at the city’s crown court after admitting three assaults and two charges of using threatening, abusive, insulting words or behaviour causing harassment, alarm or distress.
AN ABUSIVE patient who bit and kicked NHS staff while a patient lay dying in a nearby cubicle has been jailed.
Mum-of-three ShannonLeigh Williams, who was at Queen Alexandra Hospital for foot surgery, assaulted a nurse, attacked two security guards and put two other nurses in fear they would also behurt.
At Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court the ‘extremely troubled young woman’ wept in the dock and repeatedly interrupted a judge who jailed her for 16 weeks.
The 25-year-old first pushed a TV at nurse Liliana Loureiro dealing her a ‘significant’ black eye and cut after being ‘aggressive, abusive and swearing’ at around 8.30-9am one day.
A day later, still in hospital, Williams was ‘aggressive and extremely unpleasant’ to nurse Sally Lewis, and senior sister Sandra Dewis who had been called in to assess her behaviour.
Williams also had been asked by Ms Dewis about reports she was smoking near oxygen tanks - posing ‘very real concerns about what could be catastrophic consequences,’ prosecutor Lucy Linington said.
‘That resulted in a further tirade of abuse against Ms Dewis,’ she said. ‘She was repeatedly swearing, aggressive.’
In her statement, Ms Dewis said: ‘This whole incident made me late off work and I’m upset because there was another female dying in a nearby cubicle.’
Miss Linington added Williams’ actions had a ‘significant impact’ on the woman’s death.
Security staff were called and tried to calm her down but had to physically remove her from the ward on January 13 last year.
Guards Antony Rose and Neil Whitcher found Williams at a nursing station accusing staff of stealing her necklace and demanding tramadol medication.
‘For his efforts Mr Whitcher was bitten on the forearm’ drawing blood, the prosecutor said. He had to go to A&E and undergo ‘distressing’ blood tests for infectious diseases. Mr Rose was kicked three or four times to the knee.
Williams, who suffered a head injury while training to enter the Army, must pay £100 compensation to each of the three assault victims.
She admitted three assaults on emergency workers and two charges of using threatening, abusive, insulting words or behaviour causing harassment, alarm or distress.