A PINT-sized schoolgirl who lashed out at police officers, made hoax 999 calls and harassed a family has been dubbed "charming" and "quite polite".

The 14-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, beat one officer with a platform shoe, kneed another in the groin and kicked a third in the face.

An application by the Evening News to lift the defendant's legal right to anonymity was rejected by magistrates.

Clare Linehan, prosecuting at Worcester Magistrates Court yesterday, said the girl spent 10 months making abusive phone calls to Michelle and Rebecca Yeomans.

In February, she attacked Julie Hoare with an empty vodka bottle in Cranham Drive, Warndon, screaming at her she was "a mental case".

In March, a WPC caught the girl rowing with her mum - convicted of assaulting a police officer - in the Glovers Needle pub.

"She swore and then kicked the officer's leg with some force," Ms Linehan said. "A PC then stepped in and the girl continued to struggle, kicking him in the left shin."

The following day, she tried to return a vest top to Mark One in Crowngate which she shoplifted hours earlier.

The girl, who had been living in Malvern under social services care, sobbed as Ian Pugh, defending, told the court she was "charming, quick-witted and quite polite".

"There has been a distinct slowing down in the pattern of offending," he said.

"What has slowed it down has been a realisation of her predicament and by the fact that she's been in a relatively structured environment."

She begged magistrates not to jail her.

"If you let me go home, I promise I'll be good," she said.

She admitted 15 charges including assaulting police officers, harassment and deception and was given a two year supervision order.

She was placed under an indefinite restraining order concerning Michelle and Rebecca Yeomans, given a 12-month parenting order and told to pay £20 compensation to Ms Hoare.

Magistrates were told the "wildcat" teenager had committed a string of offences.

In April, she made a hoax 999 call from a phone box and swore at the operator, admitting later she had made a number of similar calls.

The following month, two Special Constables caught the 14-year-old drinking with a group of pals.

Later, on the King George V Playing Fields, the officers were greeted with swearing and shouts of "bald headed b******s".

She went "berserk" when she was arrested. The PC, who she kicked in the groin and left with nerve damage in his right hand, had "never been so frightened", the court heard.

In June, she kicked a PC in the face when he tried to arrest her after an incident in the One Stop Shop in Cranham Drive, Warndon.

"She was like a wildcat," the PC's statement read.

"She was struggling continuously and I had to drag her out of the shop by one leg."

Later that month, she lashed out again, kicking him in the groin as he tried to arrest her for breaching bail conditions.

In August, she was caught in breach of bail by a PC.

"She was barefooted," Ms Linehan said. "But she was carrying a pair of slip-on platforms with a three-and-a-half-inch heel.

"She struck him several times in the face with the shoes."