MAGISTRATES convicted Joanne Nutland of throwing a bottle of wine at a police officer during a drunken fracas in Devizes Market Place.

Nutland, who is living in a caravan in Green Lane, admitted assaulting PC Tom Kinderman by punching him in the head but she denied throwing a full bottle of wine at him which hit his right leg.

At Kennet Magistrates Court in Devizes on Tuesday, after hearing evidence from PC Kinderman and another witness Ryan Francis, along with Nutland, they accepted that Nutland had thrown the bottle of wine at the officer.

The incident happened at 7pm on July 28.

PC Kinderman said he went over to Nutland and the group of people she was with, which included her daughter Hayley and Scott King, because Nutland was arguing with her daughter and he could hear swearing.

Sentencing was adjourned to January 5 at Andover Magistrates'Ccourt.

l Darren Waldie, of Waiblingen Way, Devizes, who committed a number of drink related offences in Devizes recently, was given a two year Anti Social Behaviour Order by magistrates sitting in Chippenham on November 21 but breached it seven days later.

One of the conditions of the order banned Waldie, 33, from entering licensed premises in the Devizes drinking bylaw area.

Waldie was arrested last Friday when police officers came across him inside The Dolphin pub in Northgate Street. He appeared at Chippenham Magistrates Court the following day and was fined £50 for breaching the order and ordered to pay £43 costs.