Appearing before Haverfordwest Magistrates’ Court on September 24, a Pembrokeshire woman has pleaded guilty to assaulting four emergency workers last June.

Twenty-six-year-old Cerys McBride, of 35 Princess Royal Way in Haverfordwest, admitted assaulting a police constable at Withybush General Hospital Accident and Emergency Department on June 6, 2023, thereby occasioning her actual bodily harm.

The following day, the defendant had assaulted two further police constables at Haverfordwest Police Station, occasioning the female officer actual bodily harm and beating the male officer, court heard.

McBride also admitted to assault by beating of a mental health support worker at PICU ward in Carmarthen on June 26, 2023.

Because of the serious nature of the unprovoked attacks, aggravated as they were directed towards emergency workers, only a custodial sentence could be justified. 

Taking her guilty plea into account, and being mindful of a ‘realistic prospect of rehabilitation’, the magistrates sentenced McBride as follows: imprisonment period: 26 weeks, suspended period: 24 months (uplifted from 12 months). There is ‘evidence that she is engaging well with Probation and has a stable address and building better relationships with family members,’ it was stated.

Costs to Crown Prosecution Service were £85 and compensation set at £100.