AN alcoholic urinated in a police van and spat at an officer.

Leanne Reeve who pleaded guilty to criminal damage at The Lyppard Grange pub and assault suffers from psychosis and “drinks to excess” every day.

Prosecuting at Worcester Magistrates Court on January 30, Rhiannon Lucas said: “On the night in question the defendant was drinking at a local pub where the victim and his friends were playing pool. The victim noticed the defendant go up to the bar and ask if she could buy cigarettes. The victim told her that they did not sell them, and she would have to go to a nearby shop.”

“At this point she lifted a salt-shaker and threw it at the victim’s friend. They carried on playing pool, ignoring her when she lifted a chair and threw it at the victim.”

“The bar manager tried to restrain her and eject her from the pub. On her way out she elbowed the glass door. The glass broke and she was covered in blood down her arm.”

The court heard that when officers arrived, they tried to take Reeve of Milward Close, Worcester to A and E and described her as “unruly” and “not co-operating.” They got her into a police van and, as an officer was about to close the door, the 29- year-old spat at him and swore at him.

Miss Lucas told the court that Reeve also urinated in the back of the van so it could not be used for the rest of the evening.

Defending, Mark Sheward said: “For some years she has had psychosis and she accepts that she has an alcohol addiction. On occasions she has been sectioned.”

Mr Sheward said Reeve has self-harming scars all over her arms. He said on the night in question she had picked up a piece of the broken glass from the smashed pub door to cut herself with, which is why she had blood on her.

The court heard that Reeve, in the recent past, was in an abusive relationship with a man who broke her cheek bone and three of her ribs.

Mr Sheward said: “She accepts that she spat at the officer and that it was entirely wrong.”

Reeve was given a 16 weeks sentence suspended for 12 months with an alcohol treatment requirement. She was fined £50 in compensation to each of the two victims and must pay a victim surcharge of £122.