A WOMAN has avoided jail despite attacking two police officers in Northwich.

Laura Thurston appeared at Chester Magistrates' Court on Friday (March 11) where she pleaded guilty to two counts of assaulting an emergency service worker.

The 34-year-old was arrested and charged with the offences, which took place on December 16 last year.

When Thurston, of John Nicholas Crescent, Ellesmere Port, committed the offence she was already serving a community order handed down by the court on April 7, 2021, for a similar offence.

She had attacked a female police officer in Warrington on February 18 that year.

Because of this, and taking her guilty plea into account, magistrates imposed a 26-week prison sentence, but suspended it for 18 months.

Thurston was also handed a 120-day Alcohol Abstinence Requirement and ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £128 and £85 in costs to the Crown Prosecution Service.