A GREENOCK woman who was arrested after throwing a shoe at a PC kicked the same officer to the head while being transported to the town’s police office.

Claire McShane was spared a prison term for the violent incidents after appearing for sentencing at the sheriff court last week.

The 36-year-old pleaded guilty in July to an amended charge of assaulting the male constable at her home on Dempster Street and elsewhere on April 3 last year.

Procurator fiscal depute Pamela Brady said officers attended the address shortly after 10pm on the date in 2023.

Mrs Brady told the court: “Two police officers were at the locus regarding a separate matter and spoke with the accused who was uncooperative with them.

“She behaved aggressively, picked up a trainer and threw it towards a PC, striking him on the chest.”

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McShane was arrested and taken to Greenock police office and during the course of the journey to the Rue End Street station she ‘continued behaving erratically’, according to the prosecutor.

The fiscal depute added: “[McShane] lashed out towards the same PC, kicking him on the back of the head whilst he was driving the police vehicle.”

Acknowledging the ‘serious offence’, defence solicitor Edward Sweeney said: “Mercifully no injury was caused by her behaviour on that day.”

The lawyer said that his client had not consumed alcohol or drugs for ‘a number of months’ and had a ‘limited record’.

However, a background report prepared for the hearing assessed McShane as being of a high risk of reoffending.

A not guilty plea was accepted by the Crown to an allegation that McShane behaved in a threatening or abusive manner by shouting, swearing and uttering offensive remarks on the same night.

Sheriff Sean Lynch sentenced McShane to a community payback order with 18 months of supervision by the criminal justice social work department.

She will also be referred for a drug treatment and testing order as an alternative to custody.