A WORCESTER mum who harassed staff at a community health clinic has been sectioned under the Mental Health Act by magistrates.

Violet Miller appeared at Droitwich to be sentenced for threatening staff and breaking a window at Merriman's Hill Mental Health Resource Centre, threatening staff at Shaw Street probation office and breaching bail conditions.

But the 39-year-old was reduced to tears as the bench agreed a 28-day stay at Reaside in Rubery was the best thing for her until a new sentencing date on Friday, December 14.

The decision was made after the court heard about Miller's long history of breaching bail conditions and fears for her psychological state of mind.

The mother-of-five began venting her frustrations on the health centre after waging a campaign against Christopher Whitehead High School earlier this year.

After gaining a string of convictions for abusing school staff, she was referred there in the hope she could be helped with her "problems".

But on Monday, September 17, and Tuesday, September 18, Miller banged on the centre door, demanding to see a nurse, breaking a window when staff refused.

On arrest, she hurled abuse at PC Sarah Bennett.

Miller admitted using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, and criminal damage, on Friday, September 28.

She was ordered not to cross the Severn Bridge into Worcester City until the next hearing, but on the morning of a court appearance, Miller showed up at the probation office in Shaw Street.

She had threatened staff at the office days earlier because her appointment was delayed.

Miller, of Bromwich Road, St John's, admitted breaching bail and threatening behaviour on Thursday, October 18.

Charles Hamer, defending, said until last spring, Miller had lived a perfectly respectable life.

"But since then she has been involved in many incidents of abuse and violence towards property," he told the court in September.

"It's clear there are problems which have come to a head in the last few months which, in my judgement, are of a psychiatric nature.

"The centre staff said they saw an angry-looking woman banging on the door and refused to open the electronically operated door. Her temper was exacerbated and things got worse."

At last Friday's hearing, magistrates told Miller she would be moved to Reaside from Brockhill prison as soon as a bed became available.