Overview

• Taia Antonia Ryder, 28, pleaded guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to assaulting a venue worker and three police officers.
• Recorder Mark Bradshaw imposed two months’ imprisonment suspended for 12 months, £200 costs, 25 rehabilitation activity days and a three-month alcohol-abstinence requirement, declining to activate an earlier suspended sentence.
• The offences stemmed from a February 1 incident at Blackstone Street Warehouse in which she punched staff member Marcus Hongkins, cutting his lip after he tried to help her.
• During police and hospital custody she bit PC Adam Humphreys, urinated on PC Angel Hill while restrained as officers said she stated she did so deliberately, and later spat in PC George Whitehead’s face.
• Ryder told police she had been heavily intoxicated and recalled little; her lawyer and a mental-health navigator described complex needs, prior street homelessness and recent enrollment at Bolton University.