Teenage mum jailed after breaching order

An unemployed teenage mum has been jailed for breaching the terms of her suspended prison sentence.

Lauren O'Brien, 19, was sent to a young offenders' institution for six weeks because she entered Sneinton which she was banned from doing under a criminal behaviour order.

The sentence was handed down at Nottingham Magistrates' Court after O'Brien, of Stephenson House, Mather Road, Newark, admitted breaching that order.

She got six weeks for that offence to be served consecutively to a sentence of 12 weeks for her original offending.

The court heard her presence in Sneinton was reported in a 999 call.

O'Brien was sentenced at the same court on December 10 to 12 weeks, suspended for 12 months for seven offences committed in the space of 20 days that included head-butting and punching police officers.

Five of those offences were committed in Sneinton where her ex-partner lives.

O'Brien, who is on benefits, had pleaded guilty to three charges of assault on police, two counts of being drunk and disorderly in public, criminal damage to a police vehicle, and threatening behaviour.

In suspending the original sentence District judge Leo Pyle said aspects of the case persuaded him not to send O'Brien to custody.

As part of the sentence, he ordered her to undergo alcohol treatment for six months and gave her a two-year criminal behaviour order.

Under the order O'Brien wasn't to go to Sneinton or have an open can or bottle of alcohol in Nottinghamshire.

Those offences were also committed while she was serving a suspended sentence.

Her defence solicitor had successfully argued O'Brien was attempting to turn her life around.

Her child lives with its father.

O'Brien was the first person in Nottinghamshire to receive a Criminal Behaviour Order following their introduction on October 20 last year.