A mum-of-two from Derby mocked her disabled partner in the street while clutching a knife.

A court heard how drunk Rebecca Bailey, of Alvaston, cruelly taunted the victim, who has a muscle-wasting condition.

Then, after being arrested in connection with a separate incident at the Blue Peter pub, the 35-year-old verbally abused police officers, calling one a “fat and dirty b****”.

The hearing was told how her partner is “not co-operating” with any prosecution against Bailey who faces an anxious wait to learn her fate after magistrates sent her case to the higher crown court for sentencing.

Sarah Sanderson, prosecuting, said the first incident happened in Keldholme Lane, Alvaston, in the early hours of June 13.



She said: “This has been made a hate crime because of (the victim’s) disability which is his muscle-wasting disease.

“He walks with a limp. She also admitted to police she had done a ‘dance’ to take the mickey out of him.

“She said she had been assaulted by him. He was arrested but no further action was taken against him.

“There had been an earlier argument and, as a result of it, she had gone into a property, picked up a knife, which is described as having a 12cm blade, and taken it back out into the street where there continued to be a verbal argument.

“She admitted she had been drinking and that she had got the knife to protect herself.

“Other people were out in the street and witnessed it.

“They saw her verbally abuse him.”

Blue Peter pub

Mrs Sanderson said weeks later, on July 26, police were called to reports of an incident at the Blue Peter pub where Bailey, of Whernside Close, was arrested.

She said: “She became extremely abusive, calling a female officer a ‘fat b****’ and saying ‘I bet you have not got a man’ and calling her a ‘dirty b****’.”

Bailey pleaded guilty to possession of a bladed article in public and using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour.

Magistrates handed her a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered her to pay £50 compensation to the two police officers she abused.

But they sent the more serious knife charge to Derby Crown Court where she is scheduled to be sentenced on August 19.

Alcohol 'made her behave' this way

Chris Hallas, for Bailey, said: “She took exception to being arrested because as far as she was concerned she had done nothing wrong.

“The consumption of alcohol made her behave in this way and she is ashamed, upset and deeply remorseful that she caused such offence towards the officers.

“She is a mother-of-two who works 16 hours-a-week as a carer and gets between £600 and £900 per month on Universal Credit.”