Woman spared jail after giving policeman she punched chocolates

A woman who punched a police officer has been spared jail after a judge heard that she bought him a box of chocolates to apologise.

Kylie Fisk, 20, lashed out as officers tried to break up a brawl she was involved in outside her home in a cul de sac in Ipswich, Suffolk.

She screamed abuse, kicked a police car, punched Sgt Alistair Livingstone in the lip and left five deep scratch marks to his face.



But she was shown mercy by District Judge David Copper after he was told how she had bought the £3.10 box of Nestle chocolates to say sorry.

Judge Cooper, sitting at South East Suffolk Magistrates Court, told her: "That is a very sweet gesture. I have never heard of that happening before. I have to consider compensation. You bought the police officer a box of chocolates, that is nice. You just go and give him that."

Fisk admitted assaulting Sgt Livingstone just after midnight on October 18 and was given a curfew order from 10pm to 7am for two months. Judge Cooper added: "You have committed a very serious offence. It must never happen again or you will go to prison."