A WOMAN has been fined after sending offensive messages to her brother’s ex-partner and shouting abuse through her letterbox.
Maisie Curwen, 28, left her victim feeling unsafe in her own home after going over to her property and kicking the doors while shouting abuse.
She then resisted arrest after police arrived on the scene.
Pamela Fee, prosecuting at Workington Magistrates’ Court, read a statement from the victim which said she had ended her relationship with Curwen’s brother in August.
Curwen then became ‘increasingly involved’ and started messaging the victim constantly. The victim then blocked Curwen to prevent her sending further messages.
Contact was then made over the garden fence, where Curwen’s mother lives. Curwen wanted to see some messages on the victim’s phone but she refused, saying she didn’t believe it was any of her business.
Curwen then threatened to jump over the garden fence to get the victim’s phone off her.
On November 5, the victim was at home and was letting her children go with their dad when Curwen saw her and started walking towards her.
The victim said she could tell that Curwen was ‘angry’ and ‘wanted an argument’. She shouted at the victim to come out of her house and called her an offensive name.
The victim then heard banging at her back door which sounded like it was being kicked. The victim feared Curwen would break into her home.
Curwen then opened the letterbox and started shouting abuse through it. She tried the handles of both the front and back doors.
The victim said the incident made her feel unsafe in her own home.
Police arrived on the scene and asked Curwen to stop shouting. She was informed to calm down or she would be arrested.
Curwen responded: “Just because you’ve got a badge mate, you don’t speak to humans like that.”
Curwen continued to shout and was asked if she wanted to be locked up. She continued with her irate behaviour and officers attempted to engage with her.
She was then placed under arrest. Curwen told the officers she wasn’t getting locked up because she had ADHD.
She was told to calm down and come outside. The officer managed to get handcuffs on her but she was resisting the arrest. The officer was unable to lift her from the sofa.
During police interview, Curwen accepted she had sent the messages. When asked if she’d said, ‘I’ll take your head clean off’, Curwen said she did.
Curwen was then asked if she had called the victim a ‘s***’ and replied, ‘yes, because she is’.
Claire Kirkpatrick, defending, said: “This lady has no previous convictions. She didn’t anticipate she would be before the court.
“The complainant had messaged someone Miss Curwen was in personal connection with and gave away some personal information. The argument had nothing to do with her brother.
“She accepts there was a streak of messages with some abuse going backwards and forwards between both of them.
“She had no intention of carrying out the threats. She said it was done in anger.
“Everything settled down for a number of weeks. On the date, she was under the influence. She has gone round and was shouting and carrying on outside.
“She made it difficult for officers to get handcuffs on her.
“She’s got no intention of contacting this lady again. She’s kept away since then.”
Curwen, of Woodhouse Road, Whitehaven, pleaded guilty to sending communication of an indecent or offensive nature, using threatening, abusive words or behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress, and resisting a constable in execution of duty.
She was fined £120 and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £48 victim surcharge.
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