AN alcoholic spared jail for sinking her teeth into a chip shop boss has walked free again after attacking a police officer in a drunken rage.

Hayley Marie Jones, 34, was last December made subject to a suspended prison sentence at Burnley Crown Court, after she launched a vicious and sustained assault on ‘elderly’ Paul Iasonides at Reedley Chippy.

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She had bitten him on the arm after demanding her money back over a tea cake and scallop dinner and the victim had had to prise Jones off his arm as she clung on with her teeth.

The court heard how Mr Iasonides told police how Jones had gone at him ‘like a wolf ‘ as he was trying to force her out of his Burnley Road shop. He was left traumatised after his ordeal, in which he suffered multiple abrasions, as well as a ‘nasty’ bite mark.

The defendant had received 44 weeks behind bars, suspended for two years, with two years' supervision and alcohol treatment, after a jury found her guilty of assault causing actual bodily harm.

Last Friday, Jones, said to have been drinking since she was eight, was back in the same dock, after a further drink-fuelled outburst, when she repeatedly kicked an officer as he tried to shut her inside a police van.

The defendant, of Commercial Street, Brierfield, had admitted being drunk and disorderly on Commercial Street and assaulting PC Gavin Entwistle, on August 16, in breach of the suspended term.

She received eight weeks in custody, suspended for a year, to run consecutively to the first suspended sentence and a seven-day residency order.

Lisa Worsley, prosecuting, said police were called to reports of a fight on Commercial Street, at 1.15am.

Jones was agitated, shouting loudly and a number of people were concerned about her behaviour.

Ms Worsley said the defendant, who was in a rage, was arrested, handcuffed and put in the back of a van. Jones than started to lash out with her feet, striking the officer on the chest and thigh.

Jones had five previous offences and a ‘significant record for assault’. She started offending when she was 18 and had a conviction for possessing an offensive weapon.

Laura Barbour, defending, said: “She began drinking alcohol when she was eight. Her mother was an alcoholic, but it’s something that’s been a feature that has not only her adult life, but the majority of her life.”