Woman jailed after climbing on bonnet and damaging car

A WOMAN who turned on an innocent grandmother who was buying petrol, climbed on top of her car bonnet, and told her: “I’m going to rip your f ****** head off” before ripping off the windscreen wipers, has been jailed.

The grandmother had paid for her petrol at Esso in Park Lane, Middlesbrough, when Bernadette Davies began shouting abuse at her on the forecourt – in front of her grandchildren.

Davies, 42, smashed the grandmother’s windscreen on the afternoon of April 15, after she had been refused service by staff in the petrol station.

When police arrived and arrested Davies, she kicked an officer and was found to have cannabis on her.

On Wednesday, prosecutor Uzma Khan told Teesside Crown Court that the victim’s grandchildren no longer like to go out with her in her car to enjoy days out as they associate the car with this incident.

The grandmother has had to increase her anxiety medication.

Ms Khan told the court that Davies had gone on to kick a second police officer early in the morning on April 27, after police arrested her at her expartner’s home.

On the afternoon of July 19, Ms Khan said that were police were called out again – this time to the New Look shop in the Cleveland Centre, where it was reported that Davies was embroiled in a dispute with a man. But Davies moved her argument to an area at the back of Teesside Crown Court and members of the public saw her arguing with the man before hitting him in the face.

Ms Khan said: “She took the male to the ground and continued hitting him.”

When police arrived, they reported that Davies – who ran off before being arrested – was intoxicated and aggressive.

Members of the public saw her shouting racist abuse and swearing.

Davies, of Lytton Court in North Ormesby, pleaded guilty to criminal damage, two counts of assaulting a police officer, the possession of cannabis, racially aggravated harassment and the breach of a suspended sentence order.

The court heard that she has 31 previous convictions for 84 offences, which include numerous thefts.

Davies was handed a suspended prison sentence for affray in February, when she was also handed an alcohol abstinence order.

Ms Khan said that probation had shown Davies leniency and consideration, “given her chaotic lifestyle, mental health challenges and history of domestic abuse.”

But Davies had failed to stop drinking and hadn’t attended the required appointments with the probation service.

Emma Williams, defending, said that her client now accepts that she is an alcoholic.

Ms Williams said that Davies has drug misuse problems and has had her children taken away from her.

Having previously had a bad relationship with probation, Ms Williams told the court that she now wishes to address her problems with probation.

Judge Howard Crowson told Davies that there were people willing to help her with giving up alcohol, “...but maybe you’re just not ready. You’re having a terrible time in your life.

“There are people here supporting you but you don’t do your part.”

The judge jailed Davies for 11 months and ordered her to pay £128 in compensation to the grandmother.

The judge told her that she will be placed under supervision for 12 months on her release from prison, adding: “Maybe when you are clean of drink, you won’t offend.”