A PROLIFIC offender has avoided jail after spitting at a police officer and entering an area of Oxfordshire she is banned from.

Charlotte McCollin was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court on Monday (March 18) for one count each of assaulting an emergency worker and handling stolen goods and two counts of breaching a criminal behaviour order (CBO).

The order, which prohibits her from entering Blackbird Leys was put in place by Oxford Magistrates’ Court in 2022.

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Sentencing the 32-year-old to a 12-month community order, Judge Nigel Daly said: “I see you in these courts time and time again, it’s getting very repetitive.

“You’ve got this criminal behaviour order against you and I’m not sure there’s any point to it as you keep breaching it because all your friends and family are in Blackbird Leys.

“You’re still subject to the order. I don’t know if it’s going to be possible to do anything about that.

"If you do go to Blackbird Leys, you’re going to get arrested. Please don’t attack the police officers if you do, they are just doing their jobs.”

Opening the case, prosecutor Richard Randall said on November 26 last year, McCollin was caught at a property in Pegasus Road at about 4am.

Officers arrested her and took her to Abingdon Police Station where it was discovered she had a stolen Lloyds Bank card.

The court heard there was no evidence she had stolen the card or used it.

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When in police custody, McCollin refused to leave the cells to be interviewed and began ‘shouting abuse’ at officers.

She then spat at a sergeant through the hatch in the door.

The second breach took place on December 14 when she was caught at her father’s address in Blay Close at about 6.30pm and was arrested again.

It was heard she has 65 court appearances for 169 offences. Eighteen of those were for assaults on civilians and 21 were for assaults on emergency workers.

Defending McCollin, her barrister Bethan Chichester said: “She is a very damaged individual. Given her background, the context is important, her daughter was taken into care.

“Everyone she knows is in Blackbird Leys, her family.”

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In the community order, McCollin is required to complete 90 days of alcohol abstinence and 25 rehabilitation activity days.

She will also be subject to GPS location monitoring and will need to complete drug rehabilitation treatment, including attending court once a month.

McCollin, of Hawksmoor Road, Oxford, will next be due in court for a review on April 15.