Woman offered to lick privates of officer after Clydebank incident

The drunk 54-year-old jumped on one officer's back and bit her, spat at another and then made the sexualised comment while standing in Clydebank police office.

Shona McPhail was with a man in Red Moss Road, Duntocher, after being spoken to by officers in an unrelated incident.

She was shouting and the man told her to sit in his vehicle to stop her from being loud in the street.

Police asked her to stop, at which point she turned up the radio to play "extremely loud music".

The woman, of Howie Crescent, Rosneath, was informed she was under arrest and an officer tried to lean into the passenger side window to arrest her.

"McPhail got out and leapt onto the back of the officer," fiscal depute Mandy Robertson told Dumbarton Sheriff Court.

A second officer tried to pull her off, causing them to fall back.

The first officer straddled McPhail on the ground, and the woman struck out to their face with an open palm.

"She then grabbed the officer's left wrist, dug her nails into her skin, causing abrasions and some skin to come off," said the prosecutor.

"I have got germs, bite her," said McPhail.

She tried to bite the officer and another officer came to assist. She spat at their left leg.

An officer removed their baton and placed a spit hood on McPhail.

She was taken to Clydebank police office and while at the charge bar, she tried to get the attention of one of the officers.

They refused to engage, so McPhail turned to one of them, looked at the male officer's lower body and then up to their face.

"I'll lick your d**k, you'd like that, wouldn't you?" she said.

McPhail was asked to stop as it was making him uncomfortable.

"But I've seen you on TikTok," she replied.

Mrs Robertson said the officer was distressed by the situation.

McPhail pleaded guilty in May to assaulting one officer by striking her to the head, seizing her on the arm and digging her fingernails into the arm and trying to bite her.

She admitted assaulting a second officer by spitting on his body.

And she pleaded guilty to directing a sexual remark at a third officer for the purposes of obtaining sexual gratification or of humiliating, distressing or alarming him. The charge was under the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act.

The incidents all happened on September 5 last year.

At sentencing on June 20, defence solicitor Jonathan Paul said his client was "ashamed of her actions".

"She has very little recollection of what happened," he said. "She had drunk a lot of alcohol and was severely intoxicated."

Mr Paul said the "root cause" was alcohol abuse, which she felt "can be managed".

But she accepted she would have to give it up.

Sheriff Sean Lynch said: "What I have heard about is quite frankly disgraceful behaviour and when I take that together with your record, there's no doubt the threshold of custodial sentence is met here."

As a direct alternative to custody, she will be supervised by social workers for 12 months.

She must also stay within her home from 7pm to 7am for the next four months.

Because her comment to the officer was under the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act, she had to go on the sex offenders register.

Previously, that would mean she was on the sex offenders register for a year. The High Court recently decided it should be five years when a case has more than one aspect of punishment, such as supervision and curfew.