A WOMAN has been jailed for a causing a drunken scene outside a hospital only hours after being made the subject of an anti-social behaviour order (Asbo).
Angela Wrightson, of Teesdale Walk, Woodhouse Close, Bishop Auckland, was sentenced to two months in custody for breaching the Asbo.
South Durham Magistrates, sitting at Bishop Auckland on Thursday, heard that the 29-year-old was causing trouble outside Bishop Auckland General Hospital on Wednesday night.
Hours earlier, a different bench had backed Durham Constabulary's application for an Asbo, after hearing about a catalogue of drunk and unruly incidents involving Wrightson across the town.
The three-year order outlines a number of restrictions on Wrightson's behaviour, which include forbidding her from being drunk and disorderly in public places, remaining on premises when asked to leave and trespassing on private property.
She is also banned from entering any National Probation Service office while intoxicated, assaulting, harassing, intimidating, threatening or abusing any person, using obscene behaviour or gestures in public and making hoax 999 calls.
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