A FORMER drug addict who swore repeatedly at neighbours and police after getting drunk at a funeral has appeared before Worcester’s magistrates.

Nicola Smith of Chedworth Drive, Warndon, Worcester was arrested after police were called to some flats in Ronkswood in the early hours of Wednesday, November 26.

Officers saw around eight people standing on the landing of a flat at 2.20am and heard loud shouting and swearing, and some of them appeared to be very drunk.

Marie Watton, prosecuting, said Smith had been very loud, shouting swear words, and despite the police asking her to calm down and taking her away from the group, she continued with her bad language.

“The officers were trying to move her away from the bunch of people. Se was shouting so loudly it could be heard from some distance,” she added.

Smith, aged 39, admitted the charge of being drunk and disorderly and breaching two conditional discharges imposed by the court earlier in the year after she had been in a near-by address and smashed a window with a spade.

In mitigation, Nick Roberts said Smith had been clean of drugs for quite a while but had sometimes used alcohol as a substitute.

He added the funeral had been of a person who died young and the group had been drinking following the burial.

“There was a lot of others swearing but she came to the attention of the police and was arrested,” he added.

Mr Roberts said the offence where she broke the window had been when she believed her son was inside the property using drugs and she wanted to help him stop using.

Magistrates fined Smith a total of £270.