A 59-YEAR-OLD woman has admitted being drunk and disorderly in the town centre just a week before a previous binding-over order was due to expire.
But she claimed she had been treated too harshly by the police.
The Magistrate’s Court heard that Jane Elizabeth Jouault was bound over for six months on 10 February for drunk and disorderly behaviour.
On 3 August – just seven days before the order was due to expire – she was arrested for the same offence again, outside the Caesarea pub in Cattle Street. She pleaded guilty but said: ‘It is very upsetting and annoying. I was not drunk and incapable.
‘My drinking is not out of control.’
Describing being handcuffed and arrested, she said: ‘I couldn’t have been deemed to be a risk to myself or anyone else. It was 6pm on a summer afternoon. It was very humiliating and embarrassing.’
Relief Magistrate David Le Cornu decided to postpone sentencing until 20 September to allow for a pre-sentence report to be compiled. Jouault was released on bail.
