Sophie Brown, 24, at one point approached the officer with ‘legs akimbo’ (Picture: Ben Lack)
A stay at home mum who repeatedly twerked into a police officer’s groin and called him ‘Daddy’ while he tried to arrest her was not acting in a sexual way, a court heard.
Sophie Brown, 24, was pulled to one side for acting up in the middle of an unrelated incident in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, shortly after midnight on December 2 last year.
When the officer moved to search one of her back pockets she remarked ‘Course you are’ before thrusting her bum into his crotch saying: ‘Tell me to behave some more.’
She then managed to slip out of a pair of handcuffs, which she hurled at the perturbed PC inside the van, before getting out with ‘legs akimbo’ and cheekily taunting: ‘Go on. Arrest me for more.’
Brown was initially reported for sexually assaulting the officer but that charge was dropped after the prosecution offered no evidence and magistrates ruled there was ‘no sexual element’ to the case.
Prosecutor Alex Steadward outlined the early hours incident, telling JPs the former barmaid was about to be let off with a caution before the chaos started.
After being told she needed to be searched first, Mr Steadward said: ‘[Brown] stuck out her bum and said, “Course you are”. She stuck her bum in the area of his crotch.
‘He moved and told her she needed to behave. She replied she would not behave.’
Brown was handcuffed and placed in the back of a van but somehow managed to get out of them during the drive to Scarborough Police Station, the prosecutor said.
When the officer tried to get her out, she said: ‘Go on. Give me another one. Yes Daddy.’
The court heard Brown got out of the van ‘with her legs akimbo’ and then told the astonished officer: ‘Go on. Arrest me for more.’
Sophie Brown leaves Scarborough Magistrates Court after she dodged jail (Picture: Ben Lack Photography Ltd)
Mr Steadward continued: ‘He regarded that remark as sexual. She was giggling and moving about outside the bay.
‘He told her to behave. She laughed and said, “Tell me to behave some more”. He interpreted that remark as sexual.
‘As they entered the custody area she suddenly bent over and pushed her bum into the officer’s crotch area.’
The court heard he then managed to pass her over to a female sergeant to deal with because he was so uncomfortable about what had happened.
Magdeburg Singh Sachdave, defending, said Brown was of previous good character and had not been drinking for a long time before the night of the offence.
He said she had mixed her prescribed anti-depressants with alcohol and is now ‘devastated by her behaviour and wanted to offer her apologies’.
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Mr Singh Sachdave added: ‘There are circumstances where justice needs to be tempered with mercy and this is one of those circumstances.’
Presiding magistrate Scott Handley told Brown: ‘You are not guilty of sexual assault. There is therefore no sexual element to this case.’
The handcuffs she threw missed the PC so no physical assault had taken place, he said, adding:
‘What we are left with therefore is the behaviour you engaged in in which you pushed yourself against the PC a number of times.
‘We do not accept this was a prolonged assault. It was rather a number of reactions. Nevertheless, they were not justified. But we see it as a lower level assault.’
Brown admitted assault by beating of an emergency worker and was fined £135 with a £54 surcharge and £135 court costs. There was no order for compensation.
She only spoke to say ‘Thank you’ after the sentence.
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