A drunk woman kicked a stranger in the chest after she demanded her Cabbage Patch Kid doll back. Mum-of-three Tiffany Trigg was drinking outside The Highcross pub, in Leicester city centre, when the victim walked past with the doll in September last year.
Trigg snatched the doll, which had cost the victim £23, then refused to give it back to her. The 28-year-old then kicked the victim in the chest when she demanded it back.
Trigg fled the scene and then attacked a Leicestershire Police officer later that same day who was arresting her as they recovered the doll. The assault on the officer led to Trigg being given an eightweek, suspended for 12 months, by the courts in November, but she was back before Leicester Magistrates’ Court on Monday (January 6) for the attack on the doll owner.
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Outlining the case, prosecutor Vishal Patel told the court: “The incident took place at 4.30pm on September 13 last year outside the Highcross pub in High Street in Leicester. The victim walked past and was holding a Cabbage Patch doll from a charity shop in High Street.
“The victim and the defendant had never met before. The defendant approached her and pulled the doll away from her and refused to give the doll back. The victim asked for it back and the defendant kicked her to the chest. The defendant walked away.”
Mr Patel said Trigg, also known as Tiffany Fugill, had 19 offences on her record, including two of assault by beating of emergency workers and one of battery.
Trigg appeared at Leicester Magistrates Court
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Roshni Modi, representing Trigg, of Pawley Gardens, Eyres Monsell, Leicester, said her client was a mother-of-three but only had contact with one of her children. She said Trigg wanted the doll for her seven-year-old daughter.
She said that when Trigg kicked the woman she “thought she was going to hit her”. She said it was an “alcohol-fuelled” incident and that her client was a “binge drinker” and had “significant” mental health problems.
She asked the magistrates to give Trigg a conditional discharge on the basis that the offence could have been sentenced along with the attack on the police officer the same day and would probably not have increased the sentence. Ms Modi said: “Had she been sentenced in November she probably wouldn’t have got anything additional.”
She said it was unclear why the Crown Prosecution Service had taken longer to get the attack on the woman to court and why the attack could not have been dealt with in November.
The magistrates agreed to a conditional discharge, which will last for 18 months. Eve Cooper, chair of the bench, told Trigg: “It was a particularly aggressive attack and the kick could have caused quite a serious injury. We are going to sentence you to a conditional discharge for 18 months because of the recent conviction and suspended sentence.”