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image captionLisa Dawn Fisher was jailed for 16 weeks and ordered to pay £75 costs
A woman who deliberately coughed at police investigating a breach of coronavirus restrictions has been jailed for four months.
Lisa Dawn Fisher was verbally abusive when the officers called at a flat in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, on 30 January.
The 31-year-old, of Westbourne Grove, admitted two counts of assault against an emergency worker.
Fisher was sentenced at Scarborough Magistrates Court on 17 February.
She was also ordered to pay £75 compensation.
North Yorkshire Police said there had been an increase in assaults against emergency service workers.
Officers made 104 arrests in connection with emergency worker assaults in the six months to the end of January 2020.
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North Yorkshire Police say they arrested Marcin Derewecki, 42, on February 7. Specialist public protection officers were able to prove that Derewecki had been using another name online and another email address which he had failed to notify the police about. This is a requirement under the terms of the sex offenders’ register. He was charged with both offences and appeared at Scarborough Magistrates’ Court on February 8 where he pleaded guilty. He was remanded in custody and will be sentenced at York Crown Court on March 5 at 9.45am. Derewecki received a suspended prison sentence in 2016 in relation to indecent images of children offences.
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