Amy Newall was racially abusive to a restaurant boss five days after leaving prison (Picture: Cavendish Press Ltd)
A mum was sent back to jail for racially abusing an Asian restaurant boss and trying to bite a policeman just five days after she’d been released.
Amy Newall repeatedly called Khalid Maram a ‘P**i’, before attempting to bite the police officer on his hand while she was drunk.
The 31-year-old mother-of-two from Bootle, near Liverpool, had to be restrained by police as she tried to spit at them.
She also called an officer a ‘fat queer’ and said their colleagues were a ‘bunch of P**i b*****ds’.
Newall has almost 30 offences on her record, including previous racist behaviour and assaulting police, but on several occasions been let off jail terms due to mental health issues.
In 2022, she was seen going straight to the pub to celebrate not going to prison despite telling a judge she was abstaining from alcohol.
Newall was in custody serving time for other undisclosed matters, when on February 20 this year she was given a three-month suspended sentence for common assault, criminal damage, shop theft and racially aggravated harassment.
Newall has almost 30 offences on her record (Picture: Cavendish Press Ltd)
It came after she hurled racial abuse at a shopkeeper and trashed his store when she was caught stealing wine and cigarettes.
She was released from prison two days later, on February 22, before turning up drunk for an appointment with a probation officer on February 26.
It was on February 27 that she racially abused the Asian restaurant boss and bit the policemen.
Newall was jailed for 16 weeks after pleading guilty to two charges of common assault on an emergency worker, racially aggravated intentional harassment and using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour to cause harassment alarm, or distress. She was given a further three months in jail for breaching the suspended sentence.
Mr Maram was working at Pizza Eaza on Hawthorne Road, Bootle, Merseyside on February 27 when Newall came in and asked for a cigarette lighter.
Tom Quirk prosecuting said: ‘He told her he did not have a lighter but she called him a ‘P**i’ a number of times.
The court heard she has long-standing issues with alcohol (Picture: Cavendish Press Ltd)
‘She was told to leave or the police would be called and she did so but it appears that she returned.
‘Police describes her as being extremely intoxicated and she was arrested but while a constable was waiting for a police vehicle and speaking to a colleague, the defendant leant down and attempted to bite the constable’s hand.
‘She did not succeed but was arrested for that too and while she was waiting for the police van she was abusive to the officers and made a comment about a “bunch of “P**i b*****ds”.’
She then spat at an officer and continued to make threats while being taken into custody, he added.
In mitigation Newall’s lawyer Rory McCormack said: ‘I think to some degree you could classify this defendant as vulnerable.
‘I have spoken to the mental health team and she has a diagnosis of PTSD, unstable emotional personality disorder, depression and anxiety.
In mitigation, Newall’s lawyer said she had suffered abuse as a child (Picture: Cavendish Press Ltd)
‘Certainly prior to her recent incarceration when she was recalled she was in receipt of anti-psychotic medication. She was also in receipt of methadone and antidepressants.
‘I understand that since she was released, she has not been in receipt of any of that medication.’
He added that Newall had a long-standing issues with alcohol that she has been unable to recover from.
‘It stems from a difficult childhood when she suffered abuse. That is the root cause of PTSD,’ Mr McCormack said.
Sentencing Newall, district judge Tim Boswell said: “It is plain that you have had, through no fault of your own, great difficulties through your life. In times of stress and in extremis, as your lawyer says, you resort to alcohol.
‘While the tragic circumstances are no fault of your own, you do bear responsibility for your own behaviour.’
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