‘Swung round like a toy!’ Weston teenager vows to quit booze after attacking former classmate and racially abusing man on night out in Spalding
A teenager who assaulted a former classmate and racially abused a man in the street on a night out has vowed to quit alcohol.
Shania-Lee Chapman-Johnson made the pledge when she appeared in court, where she learned an evening of ‘blowing steam off’ in Spalding would cost her £465.
Recalling the incidents of August 10 last year, prosecutor Lottie Tyler told Boston Magistrates that the female victim and defendant knew one another for ‘approximately six years’ after going to secondary school together.
“It was 1.45am and the victim was out drinking in Spalding, leaving Bentleys Bar for the XO nightclub,” Ms Tyler continued.
After recognising the voice of a woman ‘shouting and sounding like she was in an argument’, the defendant approached her former schoolmate to ‘make sure she was ok’, the court was told.
However, at this point the defendant attacked the victim, Ms Tyler said.
“She asked if she was ok and the next thing the victim remembers is the defendant swinging her arms towards her,” Ms Tyler continued.
“She remembers being dragged along the road and her back scraping along the road. Her scalp and hairline was in pain, it still hurt the next morning when she made her statement to police.
“In interview she described being swung round like a toy’ and the defendant ‘looking angry and her face being tense’.”
Ms Tyler added that later that morning a police officer arrested 18-year-old Chapman-Johnson after witnessing her punch an unnamed man in the face.
“She arrested the defendant and handcuffed her. She was shouting at the male, saying he was a ‘f*cking foreign c*nt’,” Ms Tyler added.
Chapman-Johnson pleaded guilty to an incident of assault by beating on Westlode Street and causing racially aggravated distress when she appeared in court on Wednesday (January 29).
In defence, Mike Alexander said his client wanted to apologise to both victims, adding her behaviour was ‘completely out of character’ and that she was ‘horrified’ by what had occurred.
Mr Alexander added Chapman-Johnson, who receives Universal Credit, was ‘emotional’ following a loss in the family and it being close to the anniversary of the death of another family member.
“She rarely drinks. She was blowing steam off and accepts having some alcohol,” he continued, before adding his client had indicated she was quitting booze after this incident.
Chapman-Johnson, of Biehler Avenue, Weston, was fined £200 and ordered to pay £85 costs and an £80 victim surcharge.
She must also pay £100 in compensation to the female victim.