AN ATTACKER who failed to provide a specimen and caused criminal damage has been locked up.

Agnieska Fidler was sentenced by magistrates in Kidderminster in April after she was convicted of two counts of assaulting an emergency worker by beating, one of failing to provide a specimen, and one of causing criminal damage.

A further charge of causing criminal damage to household items belonging to another person, which Fidler had denied at an earlier hearing, was discontinued.

The court heard from prosecutor Sarah Hurd that the 35-year-old had assaulted two police officers who were acting in the course of their duties and had failed to provide a specimen for analysis when required to do so during the course of an investigation into whether she had committed an offence in Hereford on January 29.

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She had also intentionally or recklessly damaged the floor of a holding cell belonging to West Mercia Police in Hereford on February 20, the court heard.

Fidler, of Pixley Walk, Hereford, was handed a 12-week prison sentence, with magistrates saying that the offences were so serious that only a custodial sentence could be justified, ordered to pay compensation of £50 to each officer, and fined £154 for damaging the cell.

She was also ordered to pay a £54 victim surcharge, but no prosecution costs were ordered to be paid.