A Perth woman kicked two police officers below the belt during a violent, drunken struggle.
Isabella McPhee, 44, told arresting officers “she loved it” after screaming homophobic remarks at them in an incident on Crieff Road.
McPhee also admitted throwing a can of drink at a woman and grabbing her hair and on a separate occasion, assaulting a female stranger outside the city centre Royal Bar in September 2021.
Police abuse
Depute fiscal Duncan Mackenzie told Perth Sheriff Court that on December 28 2021, police were called to an incident at Leslie Court in Perth.
McPhee was arrested on Crieff Road, where she directed homophobic abuse towards officers, calling one of them a “speccy ginger p**f”.
Mr Mackenzie added: “She kicked PC Miller and PC Garry Lobban in the groin.
“After she was cautioned and charged she said ‘I love it’, before adding ‘f**k the sheriff’.
“She was taken to Bell Street in Dundee.”
City centre attacks
McPhee had already attracted police attention in Perth twice before in the months leading to the assault.
The court heard witnesses – a male and female -were sitting on a bench on Mill Street, Perth, on November 4 2021.
“McPhee was sat across the road from them at a bus stop.
“She began shouting at them, made inappropriate comments and called them names.
“Both decided to to move away, toward the Sandeman pub.
“A short time later, McPhee left that pub holding a can of alcohol.
“The witnesses turned to walk away and as they did one felt something hit her back and then noticed a can on the floor.
“Police were contacted and the pair made to walk away.”
However, McPhee followed them and then began to pull the woman by the hair.
She was pushed away and police arrived.
Mr Mackenzie said: “Officers later found her sitting on a bus.
“She was clearly intoxicated.
“McPhee was arrested and taken to Perth police station on Barrack Street.
“While at the charge bar, she shouted toward police ‘I hope your mum gets cancer. You are corrupt. You are going to die. I hope you get cancer’.
“She further shouted ‘I am going to put the cuffs round your head and rip your f***ing head off’.”
On September 11, she was “extremely intoxicated” when she approached witnesses outside the city centre Royal Bar.
She grabbed one woman by the throat and repeatedly punched her face.
A passing police van stopped and McPhee was arrested.
Events ‘catching up’ with accused
Defence solicitor Paul Ralph, in mitigation for McPhee, said: “She is 44, with two grown-up children.
“She recently became a grandmother.
“She’s aware events from her past are now catching up with her.
“Some time has passed since these offences – she has kept herself out of trouble.
“This was poor behaviour.”
McPhee, of Leslie Court, Perth, admitted assaulting a woman on South Street on September 12 and another on Mill street on November 4, before shouting and swearing at police on Barrack Street the same day.
She further admitted, on Crieff Road on December 28 2021, assaulting PC Garry Lobban and shouting and swearing at police and uttering homophobic remarks.
Sheriff Jennifer Bain KC placed her on a 12-month supervision order, as well as a 12-month restriction of liberty order keeping her on curfew between 7pm and 7am.
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