A trial date has been fixed for a female inmate alleged to have attacked prison staff, including two incidents of throwing urine at officers.

Phoebe Adlard is accused of four counts of assault by beating emergency workers, prison officers at Low Newton Women’s Prison, at Brasside, near Durham, between January 25 and April 8, this year.

She is also alleged to have twice administered or caused to administer poison or other destructive or noxious thing, in both cases said to be urine, with intent to injure, aggrieve or annoy the person receiving the substance.

Those offences were said to have taken place on March 9 and 15 this year.

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She is also accused of unauthorised possession of a knife in prison, on March 31 this year.

The 24-year-old defendant, originally from Lincolnshire, has since been transferred to serve her sentence at HMP Bronzefield, a women’s prison in Ashford, Surrey.

She was to have appeared at a plea hearing at Durham Crown Court via video link from HMP Bronzefield, on Tuesday (December 19).

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But the court heard that due to her disruptive behaviour she was taken back to her cell, and so was not present for the hearing.

Judge James Adkin, and counsel, therefore, agreed upon setting a timetable for proceedings, in her absence.

It included a provisional two-day trial to take place at the court, starting on Wednesday June 5.

The trial could go ahead in the absence of the defendant, if she refuses to leave her cell.