Drunken South Tyneside woman arrested after swearing at police and 'asking them for a lift home' when lost on night out
Samantha Lawrenson, 30, of Coleridge Square, Hebburn, became separated from friends on Saturday, December 14, South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court was told.
Prosecutor Paul Anderson told the magistrates: “She gets herself lost in Gateshead while drunk.
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Hide Ad“Police speak to her and she swears and asks them for a lift home. She continues in a similar fashion and gets locked up.”
David Forrester, defending, told the court: “She simply says she got lost from friends in a place that she didn’t know.”
As well as a four-month conditional discharge, the magistrates ordered that Lawrenson, who pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly during the incident, to pay £85 court costs and a victim surcharge of £21.