By staff reporter

Last updated at 11:56, Wednesday, 10 March 2010

A drunken teenager punched a paramedic who was called to help her when she passed out in a Wigton bar.

Emma Jones, 18, hit the female paramedic in the chest outside the West Street Social Club, Wigton, leaving her with a red mark. The student had been drinking heavily and was found unconscious at 7.30pm on December 28.

Jones, of Curwen Street, Workington, pleaded guilty to assault at Carlisle Magistrates’ Court.

In a statement read out in court, the ambulance worker said: “I’m not a punchbag for drunken revellers to hit out at.”

Adrienne Harris, prosecuting, said Jones was covered with vomit when the ambulance arrived.

She added: “The paramedic helped her sit up and Miss Jones became very aggressive, shouting at her while she was trying to help. She saw her make a clenched fist and she tried to take a step back to stop herself being assaulted.”

But crouching on the floor in front of Jones, the paramedic was unable to get away in time.

Jones, a student at Lakes College, near Workington, was ordered to pay £80 compensation to the paramedic, plus £20 court costs.

 

First published at 11:26, Wednesday, 10 March 2010
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