A woman threw "used sanitary products" and other items around a cell at Antrim Police Station.

Padraigin Taylor (27), of Slemish Drive in Ballymena, had been arrested on October 11 this year. It cost £60 for a "deep clean" of the cell, Ballymena Magistrates Court was told.

A defence solicitor said the defendant has struggled with alcohol addiction and had been homeless for the last two years and had committed offences in Belfast at that time.

On the day in October she was the victim of a theft and was "overly emotional" and was arrested "and in her distressed state acted in the manner in which she did" but is now "embarrassed by her behaviour".

The defendant was fined £100 and has to pay £60 compensation.