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A teenager has been sentenced to 14 months in a young offenders institution after creating chaos at a hospital and obstructing emergency workers.

 

Sally MacLennan - who has a history of past convictions - pleaded guilty to four charges involving assaulting emergency workers and police and obstructing nurses..

 

The 19-year-old of Marvig, South Lochs, Lewis, sobbed in the dock as the sentence was read out at Stornoway Sheriff Court.

 

Sheriff David Sutherland said her “appalling behaviour” delayed administering treatment to a child at the accident and emergency department.

 

He highlighted he could not deal with the case any other way but with a custodial sentence.

Teenager sentenced over hospital chaos  

 

8 April 2016  

Procurator fiscal Karen Smith said an ambulance was called after the drunken youth fell off a stool in a Stornoway town centre bar in the early hours of Sunday in February.

 

She spat on the face of a female paramedic in the licensed premises and did the same to male police officer in the ambulance.

 

She shouted and swore at staff after arriving at casualty department at the Stornoway hospital and refused to co-operate with them, said the fiscal.  

 

In an earlier incident, after being taken to the same hospital on the evening of 23 December, Maclennan ended up lying on the floor outside the treatment room being generally disruptive, shouting and swearing and refusing treatment.

 

She was flailing and thrashing her arms and legs out still on the floor when police arrived, while other people including children were waiting, said Ms Smith.

 

Because of the chaos she caused, one father took their child away and had to return to the accident and emergency department later.  

 

Lawyer Angus Macdonald said his client was ready to start a cookery college course and “potentially has a good career in front of her” but alcohol was a “poison” to her - once she “gets a taste she behaves in this way” and causes problems for the emergency services.