MAGISTRATES have handed a curfew to a woman who assaulted two police officers who had been called to a house in Carlisle.

But the woman involved, 49-year-old Audrey Currie, was suffering ongoing mental impacts from the “traumatic childhood” she had endured, her lawyer Andrew Gurney told the city’s Rickergate Magistrates’ Court.

The defendant, from Dumfries, pleaded guilty to two police assaults.

The court heard that they happened on May after police were called to a property in Speckled Wood, Carlisle, to deal with an 'incident.'

Currie first attempted to kick some of the officers; and during a struggle, she headbutted one of them, leaving him with reddening below his eye.

Mr Gurney said Currie would benefit from Probation Service intervention to help her with her issues.

Magistrates imposed a 12 month community order with 15 rehabilitation days and an eight week 7pm to 7am curfew.

She must pay £50 compensation to the officer she headbutted, as well as £85 costs and a £95 victim surcharge.

“Emergency workers must be protected,” said presiding magistrate Paul Baird.