A TEENAGER who went on a drink and drugs binge after being cleared of a crime was arrested just hours after walking out of court.

Zoe Sharp celebrated her freedom by tormenting two witnesses who had failed to turn up to give evidence against her last summer.

She threatened to smash in Zoe Blance's face with a baseball bat, and put out the windows at her mother's home in Middlesbrough.

Sharp issued the threats from the passenger seat of her boyfriend's car as they drove slowly along Crescent Road on July 30.

Earlier that day, the 18-year-old was found not guilty at by magistrates of taking a vehicle without the owner's consent.

Miss Blance and her mother, Edith Kerr, did not attend court to give evidence and the charges against Sharp were dropped.

Sharp and her boyfriend twice drove past the family's home hours later, and she shouted abuse through the open window.

When she was arrested, the teenager told police: "If I wanted to smash her face in, I'd just do it. I wouldn't just threaten it."

Robin Turton, mitigating, told Teesside Crown Court today: "This is a deeply immature and silly young woman.

"She didn't go looking for the trouble. Trouble appeared, perhaps because she had been drinking and taking cannabis."

Sharp, of Manor Wood, Coulby Newham, Middlesbrough, admitted using threatening words and threatening to destroy property.

Judge Peter Fox, QC, imposed a 12-month community order with supervision, and a three-month electronic tag curfew.

He told Sharp: "You have got to behave yourself. You should not have been doing this, even if you were celebrating, in your own way, your acquittal at the magistrates' court."