Woman hurled covid warning sign at barman after being told to wear face mask
25.05.2022 - 07:03
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
A woman who threw a covid-19 warning sign at a bar worker when asked to wear a mask in the pub has been given a 12-month community order and must now carry out 80-hours community service after being convicted.
A court had been told that fashion graduate, Kayla Jones, 26, was drunk and shouted: “F***ing hell. Why do I get asked this? F***ing hell, I’m exempt,” in the pub she was last year.
When she appeared in court last month she confessed to assaulting member of staff Sam Ayling; causing criminal damage to a picture frame and being drunk and disorderly at The Rye pub, Peckham Rye on April 24, last year.
Jones was said to have been visibly intoxicated when she entered the pub with a masked friend at 8.50pm, according to Lincolnshire Live.
CCTV from the night was previously played to Croydon Magistrates Court showing her flinging the laminated A4-sized sign, which was on an entrance table and the picture frame, smashing it.
Court papers originally gave her address as in Birchwood, Lincoln. The court was told today that while her mother still lives in Lincoln she has moved to London.
Prosecutor Tharshani Siva told the court today: “Police were called to a report of a pub customer assaulting a member of staff. This defendant was asked to wear a face mask due to the Covid-19 regulations at the time and she shouted at the member of staff.
“The defendant picked up the sign from the table and threw it at the member of staff and she then threw a picture frame, which hit him and smashed to the floor. She was led out and continued shouting at the staff.
“The defendant was at least reckless as to any damage being caused and the offences are aggravated by being intoxicated at the time.”
The court heard Jones’ ambitions to set up her