A WOMAN who assaulted a police officer will have to cancel a holiday to Spain after being given an alcohol tag.

Chloe Gillespie, 25, pushed an officer who referred to her dog as ‘a little rat’ while he was at her property to arrest another woman on June 10.

Gillespie’s defence solicitor said an alcohol tag would prevent her from travelling to Salou for a holiday in September.

But magistrates rejected the request and imposed an alcohol monitoring tag, telling Gillespie, 'there's a price to pay’.

Outlining the case at Workington Magistrates’ Court, prosecutor Pamela Fee said police went to the address in Workington to carry out an arrest for actual bodily harm.

Officers arrived at the property and found the woman in bed with Gillespie. The woman was informed that she was under arrest. Gillespie grabbed hold of her and wouldn’t let go. An officer took hold of the defendant and moved her on to the floor.

Gillespie kept attempting to get up and grab hold of the woman. Police kept her on the floor until the woman had been arrested.

A number of dogs were present in the property and one of the officers, while talking to his colleague, said, ‘is that little rat in there?’

Gillespie had then launched herself at the officer and pushed him. She shouted, ‘who the f*** are you?’ Gillespie was handcuffed by another officer and was told she was being arrested.

Gillespie laughed and called the officer ‘a f*****g rat’. She was walked over to the landing and she then dropped to the floor to be obstructive.

She was escorted down the stairs and the officer took two or three steps before he was pushed and he fell down to the bottom of the stairs. Gillespie was then escorted to the police car.

John Cooper, defending, said: “She had gone out earlier. She was in bed [with the woman]. Police smashed the front door and came upstairs.”

Mr Cooper said the defendant had told him that the officer made an insulting comment about her dog.

He told the court: “I said I would be surprised if he said that but it’s said in his statement.

“She has got a tattoo of the dog on her hand. She refers to them as her two children. Police refer to it as a rat.

“They tumble down the stairs. There’s no suggestion it’s a deliberate shove down the stairs. She had no intention to go down the stairs. She was injured as well. It’s her own fault – she knows that.”

Mr Cooper said if Gillespie were to be given an alcohol tag, a holiday abroad would cause her to be in breach of the order. She would also struggle to get through security with it at the airport, the court heard.

Gillespie, of Bolton Street, Workington, pleaded guilty to assault by beating of an emergency worker and obstructing a constable in execution of duty.

Passing sentence, Mark Gear, chair of the magistrates panel, said: “You have worked hard to get the money together for this holiday. Unfortunately, there is a price to pay.

“We appreciate losing the holiday will be a blow for you.”

Gillespie was given a 12-month community order with 120 days of alcohol abstinence and monitoring.

She was ordered to pay £85 costs and a £114 victim surcharge.