A woman who punched a paramedic while she was drunk has told a court: “I can’t remember any of it.”
Two North West Ambulance Service colleagues were despatched following a 999 call which reported that a female was unconscious in Carlisle on 11 February.
They found that was 48-year-old Nicola Milloy. Due to her vulnerable state, the crew members decided it was necessary for her to be taken to a hospital’s accident and emergency department.
After they managed to get Milloy into an ambulance, she turned around and punched one paramedic in the chest. There was no injury but Milloy was then verbally abusive.
She was arrested and bailed but committed another offence when she failed to report to a police station on 10 May as required.
Milloy, of Duke Street, Carlisle, admitted assaulting an emergency worker by beating and a second charge of failing to surrender to bail at the appointed time, when she appeared at the city’s magistrates’ court today. On entering her plea to the assault, she told district judge John Temperley: “I can’t remember any of it.”
Mr Temperley adjourned the case for the preparation of a background report before sentence is passed. Milloy is due to return to court next month.
The judge had told her: “Any assault on an emergency worker — in this case it was a paramedic trying to help you — is serious.”
