A sheriff has challenged a mum to prove she can behave after she “immobilised” a police officer during a violent assault.
Lisa Jolly, known as Ross, had gone to a flat on Balnagask Circle after her tearful daughter had called her upset about an unrelated incident.
Police were also called to the property and arrived in the block to find Ross, 43, and a number of others spilling out into the stairwell causing a disturbance.
But when officers tried to intervene, Ross became violent, hitting one to the face twice and kicking another’s ankle, causing him “instability” and rendering him “immobile”.
Fiscal depute Sean Ambrose told Aberdeen Sheriff Court the incident happened around 11.35pm on November 26 last year.
‘She’s absolutely mortified’
He said: “Officers attended at a block of flats on Balnagask Circle regarding a report of an ongoing disturbance.”
While in the stairwell, Ross and others emerged from a flat “in a volatile state”.
But when officers made efforts to restrain her, she “violently resisted”.
Mr Ambrose said: “She struck one officer once to the face below the eye causing him sharp pain.
“She repeatedly lashed out and, as a result, struck the same officers again to the face.
“She began to kick out at the other officer, striking him several times to his right ankle, causing him pain and instability and rendering him immobile on the ground.”
Eventually, the officers managed to overcome Ross and she was restrained, handcuffed and arrested.
‘Police officers require to be protected from this sort of behaviour’
Ross, of Loirston Road, Aberdeen, pled guilty to assaulting a police officer and resisting, obstructing or hindering police.
Defence agent Neil McRobert explained his client, who appeared with no record, had gone to the address to get her daughter after receiving a phone call from her upset about a disturbance.
He said matters “degenerated” from there.
Mr McRobert said: “She’s absolutely mortified and accepts her behaviour was completely unacceptable.”
The solicitor added that, although Ross said she hadn’t consumed any alcohol at the time, her mental health had been at a “low ebb”.
Sheriff Mark Stewart told Ross: “Mr McRobert has identified that you are mortified at your behaviour.
“I take it that you adopt Mr McRobert’s expression of mortification on your behalf?”
Ross replied: “Yes.”
‘This matter has not gone away and has not been forgotten’
The sheriff went on: “You understand police officers require to be protected from this sort of behaviour?”
Ross confirmed she did.
Sheriff Stewart, explaining why he would not impose a fine, said: “I do not think I should punish your family by depriving them of money because of this outburst of bad behaviour.
“I don’t want you to think I am in any way treating it as anything other than serious.”
The sheriff said, given Ross’ lack of previous convictions and her previous good behaviour, he would defer sentence for 12 months for good behaviour.
He added: “I want you to understand this matter has not gone away and has not been forgotten.”
The case will call again in March next year.
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