Woman who spat in face of security guard at Cork supermarket jailed

Accused, who 223 previous convictions, including 159 for theft, became verbally abusive to security guard who told her to leave the store, court heard

Accused went to Aldi at the Elysian and was approached by a security man who asked her to leave due to previous incidents at the store, court told. Picture: Denis Minihane

A particularly mean assault by a woman who spat in the face of a supermarket security man resulted in her being jailed for five months.

Judge Olann Kelleher said the maximum possible sentence for this category of assault at district court level under Section 2 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act was six months.