A WOMAN arrested on the way home from a family meal had abused police, a court was told.

Burnley Magistrates were told how Michelle Bennett, 41, was shouting and swearing in the street, was asked to calm down and move away but continued her behaviour and was arrested.

Bennett, of Stansfield Close, Barrowford, who has no criminal convictions, was bound over in the sum of £100 for six months, after admittng breaching the peace. An allegation of being drunk and disorderly was withdrawn.

John Rusius, defending, said for five or six years Bennett's family had been harrassed by another family in the area.

The Bennetts went into a pub on the way home from the meal, the other family was there and she and her partner were assaulted.

When police arrived, the defendant expected the other family to be arrested but to her shock she was spoken to by officers.

Mr Rusius said police were hoping to make an Anti-Social Behaviour Order against the other family because of their behaviour. Bennett felt she was the victim as far as this and other incidents were concerned.