A KENDAL woman was sentenced to a curfew after she admitted assaulted a police officer

Rhiannon Stewart used threatening or abusive words to cause alarm of distress in Barrow on May 28.

On the same day, the 23-year-old assaulted police officer Liam Poole and damaged a pillow and mattress belonging to Cumbria Police.

The defendant, of Lound Road in Kendal, pleaded guilty to the offence at South Cumbria Magistrates' Court.

She was sentenced to a curfew keeping her home at between 5pma and 7am for 16 weeks.

She was told to pay £75 compensation to the officer and fined £200.