Woman who urinated on memorial disappears out of court
Wendy Lewis was given a “guard of dishonour” by angry war veterans as she arrived late at court, but she disappeared soon afterwards.
Lewis was caught on CCTV relieving herself on the war memorial in Blackpool moments before performing a sex act on a man in public.
She admitted outraging public decency at an earlier hearing and was due to be sentenced yesterday at the town’s magistrates’ court, where a community service order was expected as punishment.
Lewis, of Princess Street, Blackpool, arrived 40 minutes late for her court appointment and, on seeing photographers and TV crews, covered her face with a hood, lashing out at cameras as she walked to the building.
A handful of veterans, proudly wearing berets and campaign medals on their blazers, lined the court steps to form the “guard of dishonour”.
They clapped and shouted “Disgusting!” as she entered the building, to which Lewis’s response was: “Fuck off!”
Among them was former Royal Marine James Baker, 88, who served with 544 Assault Brigade and won the Distinguished Service Medal.
As an 18-year-old his unit of 38 Marines was the first on to Juno Beach on D-Day as a leading party for Canadian troops.
Badly wounded, only he and one other Marine made it off the beach alive on a day he described as “not very pleasant at all”.
Baker, supported by a walking stick, said: “In both world wars the young men, and women, have honoured their country and done their duty. That’s all, done their duty.
“And this female, I nearly called her a lady, has disgraced her sex.
“It is unforgivable what she did in the face of these dead men.
“It can be neither forgiven nor forgotten by the ex-services community, and the wider community as well.
“We are more disgusted than anything else.”
Baker, who served in the police and fire service following the war, added: “There doesn’t seem to be any real punishment for it.
“If she had expressed remorse, and meant it, we could forgive then, if not forget.
“But I’m sorry, she is just beyond the pale.
“Although I’m disgusted and feel like pouring a pint over her head, there’s nothing we can do.”
Lewis, who was late for her last court appearance, entered the building around 10.10am yesterday to see a probation officer before being sentenced.
But she promptly walked out of the meeting and left the court building and has not been seen since.
Her case was listed at noon but was stood down until 2pm, with a number of elderly veterans patiently awaiting her appearance in the courtroom.
With no sign of Lewis, the case was called in her absence and a warrant issued for her arrest by the court.
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