Teenager counts the cost of Christmas excess

Wednesday 25 January 2017

Teah Langley (18) has been bound over to keep the peace for six months by Jersey's Magistrate's Court after pleading guilty to a number of offences committed over the festive period.

Yesterday the court heard at around 22:00 on Boxing Day Miss Langley and a group of friends had been drinking and were behaving rowdily when Miss Langley got into a fight with another female in the group.

The court was told local residents attempted to intervene, but one of them was challenged by Miss Langley, who asked her, “You want to f***ing deck me?” before "squaring up" to the woman. The woman attempted to restrain Miss Langley by holding her arm, but Miss Langley responded by grabbing the woman’s hair and forcing her to the ground.

Unbeknown to Miss Langley, however, the attempted peacemaker was an off-duty policewoman, and so when uniformed officers arrived on the scene, Miss Langley was arrested on the charges of common assault and being drunk and disorderly.

Speaking in mitigation for Miss Langley, Advocate Lucy Marks, who told the court that she had pleaded guilty to all of the offences and apologised to the injured parties. Further, she accepted that she needed to address her drinking. 

Magistrate Bridget Shaw, in sentencing Miss Langley stipulated that for three of the six months she was to be bound over that she meet compulsorily with the probation service to address the issues of alcohol and the company she had been keeping, adding: “We do not want to see you in this court again.”