Hartlepool woman jailed after spitting at man
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Kelly Poad was already serving an eight-week suspended prison sentence when she committed her latest offence on January 11.
Magistrates have now triggered the original term and locked her up for a further 16 weeks after stating that she “had a flagrant disregard for court orders”.
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Hide AdPoad, 44, of Colenso Street, Hartlepool, admitted assault and breaching the conditions of a suspended sentence when she appeared at Teesside Magistrates’ Court.
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The court was told that she originally received the eight-week sentence, which was suspended for 18 months, after she was convicted in July of harassing the same victim by playing loud music through an adjoining wall over a two-month period between March and May of last year.
She was also ordered at the latest hearing to pay the man £200 compensation and was banned from contacting him “by any way whatsoever” under the terms of a 12-month restraining order.