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Homeless Derbyshire woman attacked friend who caught her having sex in her bed
A Derbyshire woman attacked the friend she was staying with after she caught her having sex in her home. Derby Crown Court heard how Demi Parker hit the woman over the head with a box and threw ashtrays and vases at the Swadlincote property.
The 24-year-old then went to her family home that she'd been banished from and burnt the internet cables and kicked a gas meter after her sister refused to let her in or hand over money.
Handing her a seven month jail term, suspended for two years, Recorder Helen Malcolm KC said: 'You committed these offences in February and April of this year and certainly in relation to the April offences you were the subject of a suspended sentence order.
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"One set of offences was on a friend who had shown you great kindness and you acted in a wholly unacceptable way.'
Georgina Miller, prosecuting said the first set of offences took place in Elmsleigh Drive, Midway, in February this year.
She said the defendant went out and returned home with a man known only as 'Shorty' who she had been drinking with.
The prosecutor said they went upstairs and her friend followed them only to find them having sex. She asked them both to leave.
Miss Miller said: 'Shorty left but the defendant became aggressive, throwing vases and ashtrays around. She then picked up a white box and hit (the victim) over the head with it and bit her arm.'
The prosecutor said after being arrested and bailed, Parker then turned up at her former family home in Brookdale Road, Swadlincote, demanding money from her sister.
She said: 'There had been significant issues which had led her to being kicked out, she demanded the money which her sister refused so she started kicking the front door.
'She then used a lighter to damage the Wifi cable and kicked the gas box. The police arrived and she was sitting on the doorstep having said to her sister 'give me some money or I will set fire to the house'.
'When she was arrested she lashed out and struck a police officer with her arm to the face.'
Parker, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, criminal damage and assaulting an emergency worker.
She has 10 previous court appearances for 25 offences, Miss Miller told the court.
David Watts, mitigating, said: "The right place to start is Miss Parker's apology to all involved.
'She is in a much better place now and recognises the harm she caused, expressing her regret. Her friend had provided her with somewhere to live when she became homeless and Miss Parker knows she let her friend down and betrayed her trust.'
As part of the suspended sentence order, the judge ordered Parker to attend 20 rehabilitation sessions with the probation service and a six-month drug rehabilitation requirement.
She also handed her a restraining order not to contact any of the victims or go to their addresses until further order.
