A WOMAN who shouted at volunteers at a soup kitchen and hit a person waiting to be served in the queue with a stick has been banned from entering parts of Worcester.
Victoria Biddle admitted two offences, one of using threatening, abusive, insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause fear or unlawful violence.
She also admitted a second offence of using threatening, abusive words, and behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress, when she appeared at Worcester Magistrates Court.
Sunreen Asfar, prosecuting, said the first offence took place at 3.50pm on November 9 last year when the 37-year-old was in St Martin’s Gate car park stairwell with friends.
When a police officer approached Biddle she was heard shouting and swearing - which was also heard by members of the public.
The prosector said the second offence had taken place just 10 days later, at around 6.30pm on November 19, when Biddle became agitated over an issue over sleeping bags while waiting in the queue at the Salvation Army in The Trinity, Worcester.
Magistrates heard Biddle, of Newtown Road, Ronkswood, was abusive to the point a volunteer there said she had felt "threatened and upset".
“She (Biddle) broke a stick” the prosector said.
“She struck another person who was there waiting to be served at the soup kitchen.”
Paul Stanley, defending, said Biddle was “well known” to the courts but Biddle had not committed another offence in seven months.
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He said although Biddle had turned up drunk to court when the case had originally meant to be heard last week, she was getting help with her alcohol problems.
Mike Weston, from the probation service, said: “I have seen Miss Biddle over the years, I haven't seen her looking this good for years.
"I would hope that carries on - I am really encouraged by the progress she is making.”
After 20 minutes of deliberation Judith Hulland, chairman of the magistrates bench, announced they were given Biddle a one-year community order adding the victim at the St Martin’s Gate incident shouldn’t have been put through what she went through.
The order requires Biddle to complete 30 rehabilitation activity days.
Biddle was told she was being given an exclusion order that bans her from entering the car park and the Salvation Army for the next year.
Biddle was also ordered to pay £95 victim surcharge, added to her outstanding court costs that is being paid off at a rate of £5 a week.
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