rsherdley published Drunken woman spared jail after walloping stranger with her shoe

Tina Hicking, of Langley Mill, repeatedly punched a stranger in the street and whacked her with her shoe, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
But Judge Rosalind Coe decided not to send the 32-year-old to jail – admitting she was probably taking a "lenient and unusual" course.
Instead she gave the former addict one year in prison, suspended for two years, and told her to take part in a 20-day probation service rehab course. But she warned: "If you breach this order and commit any...