A MOTHER-of-two's birthday night out ended in the police cells after she shouted racist abuse at a taxi driver.
Burnley magistrates heard how Winifred Ward, 27, was arrested in the police station yard at Nelson after the cabbie had driven there saying he wanted her removing from the vehicle.
Ward, of Andrew Road, Nelson, admitted racially aggravated threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour and was conditionally discharged for 12 months, with £55 costs.
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