A Spalding teenager has been fined after a court heard she had spat at a police officer in a ‘heat of the moment’ incident outside a nightclub.
Julia Trzeciak (18), of Longs Wharf, Double Street, admitted assaulting the officer by beating when she appeared before District Judge Peter Veits sitting at Boston Magistrates’ Court.
Prosecuting, Marie Stace said police went to a number of men fighting in the street in Westlode Street at 4am on February 6 and also found Trzeciak, who was shouting and swearing.
She said Trzeciak was asked by officers to stop, but she carried on and spat at an officer, after which she was arrested.
Mitigating, Philippa Chatterton said the assault had been ‘reckless not intentional’ and the assault had been ‘very much out of character’.
She said Trzeciak, who has no previous convictions, was outside the nightclub waiting to go home, when a man snatched her glasses off her head and when she took them back, he had punched her in the face.
Ms Chatterton said she had been swearing at this man and not at the police officer but she accepted she spat at him because she was ‘upset and angry’.
Judge Veits said the assault had been ‘clearly in the heat of the moment when you had been a victim of crime’.
She was fined £180 and ordered to pay £50 compensation to the officer and a total of £119 in court costs and charges.
