A woman struggling with her alcohol addiction punched a woman in the face, bit her arm and pulled her hair in a vicious attack which was later uploaded to social media platform TikTok.

In a separate incident, Carmen Hart from Medway also pestered a stranger in Sheerness and threatened to punch and kill her as she hurled a tirade of abuse at a woman and others during a two-day boozing session.

The 26-year-old’s drunken antics didn’t stop there when on another occasion, she walked into the Asda store in Gillingham, picked up bottles of wine and started drinking them.

But when confronted by a security guard, she spat at him and then later kicked out and spat at police when she was arrested.

A court heard, Hart, of Fox Street, Gillingham, committed the offences over an eight-month period, between October last year and June this year.

She was charged with an array of offences including two counts of threatening behaviour, two counts of assault, assault on an emergency worker and shoplifting.

She admitted all of the offences when she appeared in court in April and June and sentencing was adjourned to allow a pre-sentencing report to be completed on her before she returned to Medway Magistrates’ Court last Thursday (August 8), to hear her fate.

Debbie Jones, prosecuting, told the court the first incident happened on October 24, last year at Sheerness-on-sea railway station.

Ms Jones added: “The victim had purchased a ticket for her journey and then the defendant appeared in front of her and asked for the train times.

“She started to follow her, but the victim told her to wait and looked at the board and then told her the train she needed.

“The defendant then started to ask her where she was from and then asked for money for alcohol.

“She’d (the victim) had enough and thought she was out of her nut as her eyes were glazed, but she then started making derogatory comments toward her and then screamed at her, but then she apologised and then said she needed a f******* fag.

“There were children around and the victim moved to the end of the platform, but she continued to ask for a fag and then violently started to swing her arms around and raised her voice and started calling the woman a s***, a w**** and a s***.

“She was slurring her words and then said she would punch her in the face and that she would kill her and she said this about 20 times and then the train arrived and Kent Police were contacted and the matter was reported.”

Magistrates also heard Hart had got onto the same train and sat in the same carriage as the victim but four seats behind her and was overheard telling others on the train she had been on a two-day booze bender.

At Sittingbourne, the court heard, Hart got off the train and started abusing station staff in the booking hall who said she smelt of alcohol and was unsteady on her feet and she was then arrested.

Ms Jones also told magistrates about another incident at the Asda store in Gillingham on June 1 this year, which saw Hart pick up numerous bottles of wine which she began drinking.

The prosecutor added: “She was confronted by staff, but continued to drink, she then swung her arms at a security guard and spat at him.”

“The police were called and she was arrested, but she tried to kick an officer and spat again while back at the station.

She was confronted by staff, but continued to drink, she then swung her arms at a security guard and spat at him

“Then on June 21, in Gillingham, the defendant was seen arguing with an unknown male and a woman who is the victim, told them to move on, but she then said to her, ‘I’m going to f****** kill you,’ and she moved back out of fear, but then she was punched in the face and fell to the floor and her hair was pulled and she suffered a scrape to her right elbow.

“She was also bitten on the arm which left a bruise, but no cut.

“The incident was recorded by someone and uploaded to TikTok and the victim managed to get a copy of the video which led to her (Hart’s) name.”

Ms Jones also told the court when police started investigating the matter Hart was invited for a voluntary interview and made no comment but did say she wouldn’t have spoken to someone the way she was being accused of.

The victim had also given a victim impact statement in which she said she was worried about going out and found it hard to go to the shops and that she had later realised she had previously helped the defendant and that Hart had since apologised to her.

Ms Jones added: “She has previous convictions but is not heavily convicted, she got a conditional discharge in June last year and she’s in breach of that on some of these (new) offences, but is lightly convicted.”

Andrew Craske, mitigating, told the court the pre-sentencing report carried out on Hart before the hearing had identified some mental health issues.

He added: “She’s not offended since June and that’s an achievement for someone who was struggling with alcohol, it’s dawned on her she needs help.

“She is pleasant and polite and cooperative when she’s not on drink, but her path of abusing alcohol came from losing a child at five months old, it has had a significant impact on someone as young as this defendant.

“She is embarrassed and has remorse and is disgusted by her actions, she is in breach of the conditional discharge and she met one victim which led to a heartfelt conversation to explain herself.

“She’s changed her routine and she is not drinking during the day but is in the evening at home and she’s on benefits.”

Magistrates told Hart she had committed serious offences, but said being drunk was no excuse for any of her behaviour and said she should take all the help she could get from probation to stop her offending.

They placed her on an 18-month community order, which was uplifted from a 12-month order because of the assault on an emergency worker offence.

During that time she must complete a six-month alcohol treatment requirement and attend 20 rehabilitation sessions, including a mental health treatment programme.

Hart was also ordered to carry out 140 hours of unpaid work and pay £50 compensation to the police officer and the other two people who were assaulted and £65 to Asda for the cost of the bottles of wine she opened.

She received no separate penalty for breaching her conditional discharge and the threatening behaviour offences.