17-year-old slapped police officer and bit bouncer

Teenager pleads guilty after incident in 1886 cocktail lounge

A court’s heard a teenaged girl slapped a police officer and bit a bouncer during a night out.

Seventeen-year-old Charlotte Kelly of School Road in Onchan appeared before Deputy High Bailiff Christopher Arrowsmith at Douglas courthouse.

She admitted assault, assaulting a police officer and being drunk and disorderly.

Prosecution advocate Rebecca Cubbon told the court Kelly had been drinking on 9 August in 1886, on Regent Street in Douglas.

A doorman asked her to prove she was 18, and Kelly showed him her sister’s driving licence – only to turn violent when he didn't believe her.

The teenager gripped the bouncer and bit his arm as he ejected her from the club.

Around an hour and a half later, police were called to a report of a fight outside Bordello on Douglas Promenade, and when they intervened Kelly slapped an officer’s face.

In interview the next day, she admitted she couldn't remember either incident.

Mr Arrowsmith jailed her for 14 weeks, suspended for 18 months, as well as imposing a 12-month probation supervision order and ordering her to pay £125 towards prosecution costs and £200 compensation to the doorman she'd bitten.