A 40-year-old woman from Lake has been ordered to pay just over £140 in compensation after destroying a door, several windows and garden items in a bizarre fit of rage in Shanklin.
Emma Stafford, of Medeway, pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal damage when she appeared before Isle of Wight Magistrates earlier today (Tuesday).
The court heard that the Police were called to Butler Gardens, Shanklin on the 27th September after concerned residents reported a woman shouting and smashing the windows of a residential flat belonging to Southern Housing Group.
Stafford was seen by multiple witnesses to throw large garden items including plant pots, a chiminea and a garden chair at the window of the property, causing it to smash.
WATCH: Emma Stafford appeared in court following a persistent attack on a property in Shanklin.
Officers attended the scene and subsequently located Stafford in High Street, Shanklin where she was found sat atop a church wall with a cut on her arm.
Magistrates were told that Stafford had been in a short term relationship with the intended victim of the attack and was owed money by them.
Stafford, who receives a total of £900 in benefits per month, was ordered to pay £140 in compensation to Southern Housing Group.
The court costs and surcharge were dropped by Magistrates.
£900 per month! bet its for a bad back or Tourette’s
Probably not physical disabilities if she can lift and throw large objects seen….
Things like this need to be removed from civilised peoples lives for good.
Why were the court costs dropped?
How nice to know that honest tax payers have to pay for vermin like this
Standard island chav caught in the wild. Wheres the bottle of vodka?
What utter pond life, is it even human?
A sterner penalty should be enforced for this mindless vandalism. Community work or stop her benefits to cover the cost.
these are the sorts of people that the state should make homeless and send them onto the street with no bed for the night.
when they complain about being vulnerable and scared – then perhaps the state should just say – tough, you acted like a b ellend – this is what society expects – suck it up.
Stafford, of Medeway in Lake, appeared before Magistrates accused of being in possession of a Class B drug – an offence she pleaded guilty to at the first opportunity.
And….,
Emma Louise Stafford, 39, of Medeway, Lake, admitted driving while disqualified and driving without insurance in Wootton when she appeared at the Isle of Wight Magistrates’
Quite a regular to IOW echo….
It must be a hard life being a parasite on society, it is disgusting that trash like this get £900 a month whilst pensioners on state pension get a fraction of that.
So all the other residents of Southern Housing Group now have to foot the bill for her actions in their rent increases!
I can assure you that all the damage she has caused is a lot more than £140.
She sounded like she was drunk, stoned or both on the video. So I hope her flow of alcohol hasn’t been inflicted by this fine in any way? (Said in an extremely sarcastic tone)
I think our ‘Justice System’ has failed us, as the aggressive female in the video appears to need much more than a meaningless fine but some serious psychiatric help.
So, it is the unseen people who I think are our bigger problem.
You’re all acting like she is liable to pay £900 fine…. Of course she isn’t, she will eventually be chased and her benefits will be sanctioned and she will end up paying £5 per month or even less because benefits are apparently ‘the lowest amount required to live’ and removal of any monies will take her below that amount and her human rights will be infringed! I kid you not!
You are right there davimel and if she has had any “loans” from the benefit system also, they are recovered from benefits at a quid or two a week. As she has been in court many, many times for a variety of offences, due to her basic inability to act like an adult, this fine will be added to the amount she already owes. All that will happen is that she will be paying fines at about £3 a week, for the next ten years, instead of nine.
she won’t care -she is just a junkie alco s cumbag.
A muzzle & transported to Nab Tower would be appropriate for this foul mouthed excuse for a human being!
I suggest a commenter on these replies …more able than I am ….sends the video to DWP to see if she is claiming benefits unlawfully
Someone had a short term relationship with this skank? Why? the mind boggles.
I wouldn’t mind getting £900 a month for doing nothing…..
Looks like most of it goes on alcohol!!!!!
Alas if she did get court costs etc we would have to pay indirectly, and let’s face it we already pay for her benefits!!!!!.
Entitlement to benefits should come with behavioural obligations, just like jobs and membership of society groups and organisations requires.
You’re not gonna learn how to play a part in society if you’re encouraged (and supported) to act with no restraint, no punishment, and no acknowledgement of the privilege of receiving state support.
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