An angry school run mum who punched another mother and pulled her hair in front of horrified children now faces jail.
Jade Valentine, 27, jumped out of a car and launched what prosecutors called a "pathetic" and childish" scrap.
At Plymouth Crown Court, the mum-of-two was handed a 12-month community order in March 2020 after pleading guilty to assaulting the woman causing actual bodily harm. The fight happened in 2019.
She now faces jail because she has only done 14 of 200 hours of unpaid work despite getting a six-month extension and failed to keep in touch with probation, PlymouthLive reports.
Judge Robert Linford emphasised that her sentencing was so long ago that the judge had since retired.
Judge Linford said: "It is completely unacceptable. When judges make orders, they need to be followed or there will be consequences.
"If you have genuine problems with childcare, then probation will listen. That is not what is happening here, you have simply not been doing the work.
"If you keep each and every one of the appointments that you are offered then on October 29 I will simply allow the order to continue. If you have missed any of the appointments for no good reason you will go to prison.
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"Turn up that day with arrangements in place for the care of your children while you are in prison."
The judge extended the community order again until March next year and adjourned the breach hearing.
Valentine admitted breaching the community order by being out of contact with probation since May 11.
Charlie Barrass-Evans, for probation, said officers had been "flexible" with Valentine, for example accepting she could not talk at times on the phone because she was caring for the children.
Ali Rafati, for Valentine, said: "The consequences have left her feeling rather helpless, rather than being someone who is not inclined to do the work. She is very scared and very tearful."
He said her client had to bring her two children along to unpaid work sessions.
The petty spat started between the two women when one child patted the other's backside, the court heard at the time.
The prosecuting barrister said Valentine got out of her car, with a child strapped in the back, to “launch a number of punches” at the other mum.
He added that the victim suffered a "number of bumps and bruises" and "hair-pulling" was involved.
Now-retired Judge Paul Darlow told her: "Maybe the complainant in this case was shouting and waving her arms around but you were the instigator of the actual violence. This was sustained violence in the presence of several children.”
