A WOMAN has been handed a suspended sentence after assaulting three emergency workers and spitting at a police officer when they responded to a domestic violence incident.

Emergency services were responding to a call of domestic violence where a knife had been brandished.

After the emergency services arrived, Sally Clarke, 32, spat at a police sergeant and was seen to flick blood about.

She was charged with beating another police constable and a health care professional while they were trying to do their jobs.

Clarke, of Kipling Close, Malvern was also charged with assaulting a man on the same day.

It happened on December 27.

She pleaded guilty to all charges when she appeared at Magistrates Court a day after the incident.

She received a 20 week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, on January 18, and also a separate six week sentence, also suspended, for the assault on the man, to run concurrently.

She was fined £128, and ordered to pay costs of £185 to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

Also appearing at court on January 18 was Kevin Jordan, who was handed a restraining order after racially aggravated assault and harassing a man and a woman.

Jordan, of Field Road, Worcester, was charged with racially aggravated assault after he made comments, swore, watched, photographed and mocked the two people between May 1 2020 and August 31 2020.

He pleaded not guilty to the charges on November 19 2020 and was found guilty at Worcester Magistrates Court.

Jordan, 53, was given a restraining order prohibiting him from contacting two men and one woman until 2022.

He was fined £800, ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £80, and costs of £620.

On the same day, Joseph Southall, of Sutton Road, Kidderminster was found guilty of touching a woman sexually without consent on December 8, 2019 in Worcester.

He pleaded not guilty on July 8, 2020, but was found guilty by the court on December 15, 2020.

He was given a restraining order prohibiting him from contacting the woman until 2024, and fined £750, ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £75 and to pay costs of £300 to the CPS.