A POLICE officer was bitten on the knee by a woman she was trying to book in at the station in Blacon on New Year’s Eve.

Marta Szymanska, 41, of Treborth Road, Blacon, pleaded guilty to assaulting an emergency worker when she appeared at Chester magistrates court.

Prosecuting, Katie Johnson told the court that in the early hours of the morning on December 31 the officer who was assaulted was called on to assist colleagues at the station in the arrest of Szymanska.

The defendant had been verbally abusive towards other officers and had resisted their attempts to put her in safety clothing, before she bit a female officer leaving her with red marks on her knee.

Chris Hunt, defending, said Szymanska was at the station after police had been called to a “domestic situation”, and the defendant had black eyes and a bruised face herself at the time.

He said: “She was beside herself, really upset and had clearly suffered injury. She had clearly had something to drink.

“They (the officers) couldn’t get any proper sense out of her at the custody desk so took her straight to a cell.

“Officers were trying to take her clothes off her to put her in a smock so she could not harm herself, and she bit the officer trying to remove her clothes against her will.”

He added: “She accepts entirely in the cold light of day that they were doing this for her own safety.

“It seems she bit the officer above the knee but she didn’t break the skin.”

Mr Hunt added that Szymanska had apologised to the officer and was remorseful for what had happened.

Chair of the magistrates bench Dr Ken Baird gave Szymanska a £150 fine and ordered her to pay £100 in compensation to the officer.

She will also have to pay £120 costs and a £60 victim surcharge.