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A woman who committed an assault, argued outside a supermarket and spat in a police van has learned her fate. Sophie Ellis, 37, of Anderson Close in North Lynn, appeared at the town’s magistrates’ court on Thursday to be sentenced. She had previously pleaded guilty to one count of assault by beating, one of criminal damage to property, and one of being drunk and disorderly in a public place. She had assaulted another woman on July 8 last year, admitting the offence on October 26 before having her case adjourned for a pre-sentence report to be carried out. The report was tied in with her other …

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