Horncastle woman, 26, jailed after assaulting police officer

Olympia Dyson, 26, now living at Oak Tree Meadow in Horncastle but living in Chapel St Leonards at the time of the offence, admitted both the damage and the assault when she appeared before magistrates in Boston yesterday (Thursday November 26).

Prosecuting, Katie Beardmore said police attended the takeaway at High Street in Burgh le Marsh on May 30 this year, after Dyson was seen to break the window.

The officer approached Dyson, who punched her in the face.

She later admitted both offences to the police and said she had been looking for someone at the takeaway.

The magistrates heard that the offences made her in breach of a suspended prison sentence, also for assault offences, imposed in 2019.

Mitigating, Saleem Khan said in his view a psychiatric report was needed as it would be unjust to impose the suspended prison sentence without knowing her present mental health condition, and whether there had been any improvement since the imposition of the suspended sentence.

He asked the magistrates not to impose the suspended prison sentence with immediate custody as that would impede the progress she had made.

The Probation Service said Dyson was struggling with her mental health problems which had led to binge drinking.

The magistrates said there was ‘no reason not to activate the suspended sentence order’ and ordered she serve six weeks of the suspended prison sentence and a further six weeks consecutively for these offences, a total of 12 weeks.

She was also ordered to pay compensation for the window and to the police officer totalling £150.