Drink driver sprayed by police after resisting arrest.

Frankie Danskin of Castleton Boulevard admitted failing to provide a specimen for analysis and also to obstructing the police when she appeared at Boston Magistrates Court.

The magistrates heard that in the early hours of October 8, she was stopped by police on the A52 while driving her Peugeot car with a defective headlight and had been swerving across the road.

Prosecutor Paul Wood said that she provided a positive breath test and while waiting for police transport to take her to the police station for testing on the intoximeter, she tried to light up a cigarette.

He said an officer tried to prevent her in case it interfered with the reading at the police station but she physically resisted when he tried to handcuff her until eventually he had to spray her.

Helen Coney, in mitigation, said after she had provided the sample at the roadside, one of her passengers had given her a lit cigarette and one of the police officers tried to knock it out of her hand.

She said Danskin suffered from anxiety and had been very agitated by the time she got to the police station, having been sprayed, and had self harmed in her cell.

Danskin was banned from driving for 14 months but was offered the drink drivers' rehabilitation coursewhich will reduce the period of the ban by 14 weeks.

She was also fined £120 and ordered to pay £117 in costs and charges.