A MAN smashed the door of a Colchester hotel after he was locked outside and couldn't get his mobile phone says he "made a genuine mistake", a court has heard.
Samuel Worley and Zoe Fisher, both 25, appeared in the dock at Colchester Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday following the incident on Thursday, November 30.
The court heard how Worley had lent Fisher his mobile phone, but she had left it inside the Globe Hotel, in North Station Road.
With the two locked out and with no card access to get through the front door, Worley wrapped a scarf around his fist and smashed a door in so the pair could get inside.
Two emergency workers, who were already at the hotel attending a separate incident, then tried to arrest the pair.
As they did so, Fisher then kicked and spat at one of the officers.
Worley, of Phoenix Court, Sudbury, admitted one charge of criminal damage, whilst Fisher, of Witnesham, Suffolk, admitted one charge each charge of assaulting a police officer and assaulting an emergency worker.
Rebecca Debenham, prosecuting, said: “Worley didn’t have a card [to access the hotel] and he was outside shouting and screaming.
“He ran towards the hotel with a scarf around his right fist and covered the doorbell camera.
“He punched it and kicked the glass, causing it to break – the defendants entered the hotel and ran upstairs out of sight.”
After Worley was arrested, Fisher was said to become aggressive towards the officers, spitting at PC Hobbs and kicking PC Upton in the head.
Levant Kemal, mitigating, told the court Fisher suffers from PTSD and personality disorder.
Worley, who was unrepresented, told the judge: “It was a genuine mistake – it is what it is and if they do want me to pay damages, then I’m willing to pay damages.”
Addressing Worley, chair of the bench Lucy Lavender told him his “previous good character is now blemished”.
Worley was ordered to pay £590 in costs for the door and £100 in costs for the glass.
Fisher will be sentenced in Colchester on March 10 once a pre-sentence report is prepared.
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