Sheriff issues end of line' jail warning to Strathpeffer woman
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A Strathpeffer woman was warned she would be "at the end of the line" if she didn't co-operate with social workers after being placed on her third community payback order.
Donna Stewart escaped a jail sentence at Inverness Sheriff Court after admitting a total of 10 charges, including six breaches of bail conditions.
The 37-year-old of Ulladale Crescent also pleaded guilty to a disturbance in the Ross Memorial Hospital in Dingwall on June 16 last year.
The court heard that she had gone there for treatment to a cut lip and police had attended to investigate an alleged domestic assault on her.
But fiscal depute Niall Macdonald said Stewart was un-cooperative and became abusive towards officers who wanted to question her about what happened.
In another offence against police, Stewart admitted racially abusing a police officer when she was being taken from her cell at Burnett Road Police Station in Inverness on August 23, 2018.
The court heard that Stewart also refused to provide blood specimens to police in Inverness on September 22, 2018 after she was taken there following another unspecified incident.
Finally on January 20, 2019, she behaved in a threatening and abusive manner by shouting and swearing at police who had been called to her home.
Sheriff Gary Aitken fined her £400 and banned her for a year on the blood specimen refusal charge and placed her under 18 months of social work supervision.
She was also instructed to attend a women's offender programme.
But the Sheriff gave her a stern warning, saying: "This is the end of the line. You either engage with the community payback orders or you will go into custody for a substantial period."
