Teenager smashed heart monitor, assaulted emergency staff 27/10/14
A Lewis teenager who admitted smashing a hospital heart monitor, assaulting emergency medical personnel, and verbally threatening police officers was sentenced to a two year community payback order when she appeared at Stornoway Sheriff Court.
Tanya Ann Black of 2 Waterboard Cottages, Newmarket, Lewis, had pleaded guilty to the raft of charges against her.
The court heard the 19-
A month later, she used threatening behaviour during an incident at her address where she persistently stood in the main road and kicked a vehicle. She also shouted and swore.
On 2 July she appeared in court and was released on bail on condition she would stay out of trouble. She agreed to an alcohol ban and to give a breath test on demand.
Another four weeks on, on 22 July, the teenager maliciously set off a fire alarm
and flung a computer monitor to the ground at an address in Lewis Street, Stornoway.
She also refused to be breath-
She was released on bail but under a strict 7pm to 7am curfew to reside at her then bail address in Dog Crescent. Police checked up on her two nights running but she was out during the curfew hours.
Then, on 29 August, she caused a disturbance at the Stornoway hospital. Black threw a cardiac monitor onto the floor, damaging the machine. She also made verbal threats of violence to medical staff and was shouting and swearing.
Sheriff David Sutherland instructed Black to complete 200 hours of unpaid community service work by this time next year.
She is banned from drinking alcohol until October 2016 and must obey a 10pm to 6am curfew every night at her home address for the next 12 months.