“I HAVE absolutely no choice but to send you to prison,” a judge told a woman who had assaulted numerous emergency workers in Oxford. 

Ellie Collett, of Regent Street, Oxford, was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court on Tuesday (April 16) for several counts of assaulting an emergency worker.

The 26-year-old was due to be sentenced on February 27 but Judge Michael Gledhill deferred the sentence to give the defendant time to demonstrate she had improved himself.

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However, on Wednesday, April 10, she kicked a paramedic in the jaw while they were checking if she was Ok after being found sleeping rough.

She had committed similar offences on May 10, 2021, June 30, 2023, and January 30 this year.

Sentencing her to 27 months imprisonment, Judge Gledhill said: “It’s an absolute tragedy.

"The courts have done the absolutely most to help you as have all the other programmes set up to help people like you.

“I have absolutely no choice now but to send you to prison. It may well be the only place that you’re safe.

“I hope when you’re serving your sentence you think long and hard about where your life is going. Soon, you might be able to turn your life around.”

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During the sentencing, it was heard that during one of the more recent offences in January, Collett had assaulted a police community support officer (PCSO) in Oxford by beating her.

She also assaulted a police officer during the same incident.

On the same day, she assaulted the community support officer as well as a third officer, calling them racial slurs.

During the April 10 offence, she had been sleeping rough in Oxford city centre as she had ‘taken the opportunity to spend time alone’ due to mental health issues.

She was roused awake by paramedic staff who were concerned about her wellbeing.

It was heard she had become upset as the staff were ‘talking about her, not to her’ which resulted in the assault.

Defending Collett, her barrister said she has issues with alcohol and has been on two previous placements to help address her addiction.

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Addressing this, Judge Gledhill said: “I appreciate your difficulties and that you have an enormous alcohol problem.

“You may well be suffering from Asperger's as well and there are facts of your life I’m not going to set out which have led you to the gutter.”

Collett was also sentenced for breaching a suspended sentence order imposed on August 8 last year and breaching a community order which was imposed in December last year.