Woman smeared excrement in police van

A woman kicked a police officer in the groin then smeared her faeces across his pristine van, a court heard. "All hell broke loose" when Shirley Kirkman was arrested near her home, Lincoln Magistrates' Court was told by the prosecution.

She went berserk - kicking the police officer so hard he was in considerable pain and unable to work for two days. But things got worse when she was put into the van, which had been dispatched from Market Rasen Police Station.

The 43-year-old pulled her knickers down and defecated in the back of the van - watched by another horrified officer. PC Steven Lingard said: "We switched on the extractor fan and she was picking up her faeces and putting it in the vents.



"This continued all the way to custody. At one point she stood up and urinated on the floor as well."

But Kirkman didn't appear intoxicated, he told the court.

In her absence yesterday, Kirkham of Gibson Road, Hemswell Cliff, was convicted of assaulting a police officer and causing criminal damage. District Judge Richard Blake said he expected Kirkman would pay at least £300 compensation as part of her sentence.