Druken teen assaulted two nurses caring for him (From Warrington Guardian)

Druken teen assaulted two nurses caring for him

A TEENAGER subjected to an anti-social behaviour order passed out because he was so drunk - then assaulted hospital nurses who tried to aid his recovery.

Only five days earlier a senior judge had given 18-year-old Mark Probin one last chance to mend his ways, Chester Crown Court was told.

But while playing football with friends Probin drank so much alcohol that he collapsed into unconsciousness, the court heard.

The friends fled and he was taken by ambulance to Leighton Hospital's accident and emergency department, where he was attended to by nurse Margaret McAndrew.

While he was lying on a trolley bed the nurse tried to make him comfortable but he wet himself.

Miss McAndrew attempted to manoeuvre him to a dry portion of the bed but he responded by hitting her on the forearm.

Because of the hospital's zero tolerance policy towards staff assaults, she withdrew and alerted security and the police.

Fellow nurse Matthew Harrison then entered Probin's cubicle. While the medic was trying to apply a gauze and plaster to the defendant's arm, Probin tried to bite his forearm.

Luckily he did not manage to break the skin but caused bruising.

Police attended the hospital and Probin started to hurl threats and abuse at them. He was eventually handcuffed and led to a waiting police car.

Once inside he started banging his head on the car's window, again making threats towards the officers.

The court was told Probin, of Grange Road, Northwich, had been made the subject of an anti-social behaviour (ASBO) order for two years by Vale Royal Youth Court on May 18 last year.

He was back in court for breaching that order by July 6 and was given a community rehabilitation order. Last November he breached the ASBO again.

And on January 4 he appeared before Judge Elgan Edwards for breaching his community order - that time he was given a final chance for rehabilitation.

The hospital offences were committed on January 9 and Probin pleaded guilty to assaulting both nurses and breaching his ASBO again.

Last week Judge Edwards was again the sentencing judge - and told Probin youth custody was the only option.

Sending him to a young offenders institution for 16 months, the judge described Probin's attack on the nurses and behaviour towards police as "disgraceful".