Raging woman bites police officer
Six month curfew imposed for attack
A RAGING woman bit a female police officer who was trying to detain her.
The incident happened during a fight involving residents at Newbury’s Two Saints Hostel in Newtown Road, town magistrates heard on Thursday, October 22.
Helen Waite, prosecuting, said Natalie Hazel Frazer was eventually handcuffed and arrested.
But even then, the 30-year-old lashed out with her feet, kicking another officer in the shin, the court was told.
Ms Waite said: “Police were called at 1.40am to reports of a fight in the foyer of the hostel. This defendant got up in the face of an officer. She was screaming and swearing, extremely agitated and becoming more so by the minute.”
The injured officer said in a statement: “We tried to get her arms behind her back. I became aware she was trying to bite me. I felt her tugging at my trouser leg with her teeth. Then she bit, hard, and I felt a sharp pain below my right knee. Her body was pinning me to the floor. I shouted at her to stop biting.”
The officer added that the bite punctured her skin and she needed medical treatment, fearing she might contract tetanus.
At a previous hearing Ms Frazer repeatedly interrupted proceedings, screaming from the dock: “It’s all lies.”
But photographs of the officer’s bite wound were handed to magistrates.
Ms Frazer admitted assaulting an officer in the execution of her duty on August 25.
Her previous convictions include public order offences and a racially aggravated offence.
Stephen Collins, defending, said that just before police arrived at the fight scene, his client had been pushed “squarely in the chest and sent flying backwards”.
He added: “She tried to explain this to officers but – as you see – she expresses herself by shouting until someone listens and the police weren’t having that. She had previously sustained a head injury after being attacked and hit with a bottle and as the officer restrained her, it caused the injury great pain.
“She alleviated the pain in the only way she could, by biting the officer to make her shift her grip.”
Magistrates ordered pre-sentence reports to be prepared.
At the sentencing hearing Ms Frazer was made subject to a six month community order with six month curfew, seven days a week, from 7pm to 7am.
She was also ordered to pay the bitten officer £100 compensation plus a £150 criminal courts charge.