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Telford woman, 18, threatened police officer with a kitchen knife

A Telford teenager has avoided jail after she threatened a police officer with a kitchen knife.

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Shannon Roberts, 18, of Consort House in Victoria Avenue, Wellington, has been ordered to carry out anger management work after she admitted threatening an officer in January.

The woman was handed a six-month sentence, suspended for 18 months.

Prosecuting, Robert Edwards said: "At about 10.45pm on January 17, police received a telephone call from someone who used the 999 number and referred to a shoplifting offence that had taken place earlier that evening. She made a threat to the police that anybody who attended would be injured, or indeed killed."

Roberts' friend had made the phone call, and police later found the two sat on the steps outside a Methodist church drinking out of a large glass bottle.

Both then started climbing the steps and went round the side of the church.

Mr Edwards said: "The knife was raised by the defendant with the sharp part pointing with the blade upwards towards the police officer.

"She was shouting 'Come on then'."

The two officers got their batons out before Roberts handed the knife to her friend who put the blade in her trousers.

Defending, Michael Sherwood-Smith said: "The offence itself was very brief indeed."

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