A WOMAN vandalised cars at Halifax police station to attract officers' attention because she felt she had been waiting too long.
Joanne Radcliffe, 28, of Raglan Court, Halifax, decided to get herself noticed by attacking two vehicles belonging to police officers in the station car park.
Calderdale magistrates heard her trail of damage began on September 29 at the police sta
tion at Richmond Close, when she went to offer police some information she knew about murders in Halifax.
When she was asked to wait her turn Radcliffe twisted the window wipers on a Skoda Fabia belonging to Sgt Simon Platt.
She also pulled the window wipers, kicked and smashed the wing mirror and scratched the car panels of a Suzuki Jimmy belonging to PC Wendi Dyson Terry.
And on October 1, Radcliffe waited until her parents, Pamela and Peter, had gone away for the weekend before throwing a garden ornament at their Vauxhall Polo and hurling a brick through their front window, causing £1,200 damage.
Tom Snape, prosecuting, said of the police station incident: "She said she had been waiting a long time and was going to do something to get herself arrested. She told police there were murderers at her house."
He also said: "She said it was a good job their house didn't get burned and that she was proud of what she had done.
Philip Cockroft, for Radcliffe, said: "At the police station she genuinely believed that she had knowledge of not just one but two serious crimes. She felt she had something far more serious to report than everybody else.
"She got the greatest attention by getting herself arrested for damaging the police vehicles."
Radcliffe admitted four counts of criminal damage. She was jailed for six weeks.
