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Leeds woman sentenced after assaulting paramedics and spitting at officer
Cleopatra Fowler, 19, assaulted three paramedics who were helping an unconscious friend in Leeds on July 2.
Fowler had been drinking on the Otley Run pub crawl, a well-known route through the city’s pubs.
She pushed the paramedics as they tried to help her friend, then spat at a police officer after being taken to hospital.
Fowler pleaded guilty to assaulting the paramedics and the officer, and told the court she regretted her actions.
The court heard there are 51 assaults on emergency workers in Leeds each week.
Magistrates gave Fowler a 12-month community order, including probation requirements and 90 days in an alcohol abstinence programme, and ordered her to pay compensation and court costs.
Cleopatra Fowler, 19, was sentenced after assaulting three paramedics and spitting at a police officer in Leeds.
She received a 12-month community order, including probation requirements and a 90-day alcohol abstinence programme.
The court ordered her to pay each emergency worker £100 in compensation, along with a £114 surcharge and £85 in prosecution costs.
The incidents followed an ambulance call on 2 July to help an unconscious young woman during the Otley Run pub crawl.
The court heard Fowler had been drinking heavily and became angry when paramedics tried to help her friend.
- Who
- Cleopatra Fowler, 19, of Leeds, assaulted three paramedics and a police officer.
- What
- She pleaded guilty to assault by beating three paramedics and assaulting a constable in the execution of his duties.
- When
- The ambulance was called on 2 July; the date of sentencing is not stated.
- Where
- On Otley Road in Leeds, and later at a hospital.
- Why
- Fowler had been drinking heavily and became angry when paramedics tried to help her friend, who had collapsed.
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An ambulance crew was called to an address on Otley Road to assist an unconscious young woman.
Fowler pushed three paramedics as they tried to help her friend.
At hospital, Fowler spat at a police officer.
Magistrates imposed a 12-month community order and ordered Fowler to pay compensation and costs.
- Defendant
- Cleopatra Fowler, 19
- Ambulance call
- 2 July, Otley Road, Leeds
- Offences admitted
- Assault by beating three paramedics and assaulting a constable
- Community order
- 12 months
- Alcohol programme
- 90 days
- Payments
- £599 total in compensation, surcharge and prosecution costs
What people are saying
Ultimately emergency workers are fathers, mothers, sons and daughters, and when they are attacked they become victims like others.
You were drunk and you spat at an emergency worker.
I go to work to help people and not to be assaulted by members of the public whilst I am trying to keep them safe.
is mortified by her actions