A Swindon woman assaulted a custody detention officer this morning after being arrested on a warrant issued by the court.
Julianne Corp, 52, was due to appear in court in January charged with failing to stop after a road traffic collision and driving without due care and attention. Having not turned up on the day, the police were tasked with arresting her.
Having picked up the defendant, of Stockbridge Copse, Peatmoor, she was taken to Gablecross Police Station custody suite where she was to be remanded overnight.
In the early hours of today, Corp requested a drink via the custody cell’s intercom. Detention officer Dominic Durmaj went to offer her a hot drink, but she wanted water. She told him to “f**k off”.
He fetched her a cup of water instead. On his return, he opened the door’s hatch to see the defendant shouting and swearing before she demanded a phone call. He refused due to her behaviour and said she may be able to make a call once she has calmed down.
Again, she told him to “f**k off” and put up both her middle fingers.
Corp was asked to collect her cup of water from the hatch, but instead she told him to “f**k off” before pushing the cup out of the cell and Mr Durmaj ended up covered in water.
Appearing before magistrates in Swindon this morning, she pleaded guilty to assaulting an emergency worker.
Charges of failing to stop after a road traffic collision and driving without due care and attention were also put to her. But after admitting to failing to stop, prosecutor Keith Ballinger withdrew the second charge.
He told the court Corp crashed into a parked Skoda in Tower Road on 28 April last year. She then drove off from the scene, with police officers later finding her at home. Her own vehicle had front-end damage.
It’s said the defendant had been chasing another vehicle, a Vauxhall Corsa, which had collided with her vehicle a short time earlier. She’d attempted to follow the car in order to get its registration number.
In the process, she took a corner too wide and collided with the rear of the Skoda. The force from the impact pushed the vehicle up the curb and onto the footpath.
Representing herself in court, Corp, sobbing in the dock, said: “I apologise”.
She said she was trying to catch up with the Cosra which had made off following a collision with her vehicle a short time before the incident, but admitted failing to stop after hitting the vehicle in Tower Road.
Corp said she is disabled due to physical problems with her knees and back, and drives a mobility car.
She added that she “sorted it out” with her insurance company and there is “no bad feeling, he [the Skoda owner] always says hello”.
Magistrates fined her £80 for failing to stop and imposed five points on her clean driving licence. She was also fined £40 for assaulting Mr Durmaj but no compensation was awarded due to him not suffering an injury.
Corp must also pay a victim surcharge of £34 and costs of £85.
