Overview

• Lucy Cleary pleaded guilty to common assault, criminal damage and assaulting an emergency worker after throwing glasses and chairs in a Northwich pub and attacking PC Robyn Lowe.
• District Judge Ian Barnes handed down a 12-month community order featuring ten rehabilitation activity days and a year-long exclusion from the Penny Black pub.
• Cleary was fined £160 and ordered to pay £300 compensation to PC Lowe plus £50 to the pub for the damage and disturbance she caused.
• The judge accepted Cleary’s first-time offender status and her account of losing control under the influence of alcohol in reaching a non-custodial sentence.
• PC Robyn Lowe sustained a lump above her eyebrow and deployed PAVA incapacitant spray to subdue Cleary during the April 15 incident.