A WOMAN has been jailed for a wholly unprovoked street attack on a supported living assistant who was walking to a Bradford shop.

Drink-fuelled Jodie Singh dragged her victim to the ground, kicked and punched her and tugged at her hair, Bradford Crown Court heard today.

Singh, 33, a mother-of-two, of Briggate House, Briggate Terrace, Shipley, pleaded guilty to causing actual bodily harm on September 9 last year.

She was in breach of a suspended sentence order for assault and had five previous convictions for offences of violence against the person, including battery and assaulting a police officer.

The court heard that Singh was arguing with a male at 9am when the supported living assistant was walking past to a shop during her break.

She tried to keep out of the trouble but Singh approached her, saying: “Hey, babe, how would you feel if it happened to you?”

Singh and the man had been fighting when she suddenly turned on her victim for no reason at all, the court heard.

She was pulled to the ground and screamed as Singh grabbed her hair and wouldn’t let go even when passers-by intervened.

When she eventually broke free, she ran to a nearby shop pursued by Singh who tried to follow her into the building. The store keeper had to prevent her from coming in after her.

The woman suffered concussion, bruising to her neck, a sore scalp and cuts to her hand and wrist.

James Gelsthorpe said in mitigation that alcohol had been Singh’s demon in recent times and she was intoxicated at the time.

She had lived a law-abiding life as a community care worker but she lost her job and her home when she received the suspended sentence for a similar assault.

That sent her into a downward spiral, Mr Gelsthorpe said.

She was doing the unpaid work from an earlier sentence, having completed more than 17 of the 100 hours imposed.

Recorder David Kelly activated 24 weeks of the suspended sentence and added 17 weeks on consecutively for the latest offending.

“I can’t for the life of me say that it would be unjust not to activate that sentence now,” he told Singh.

She had attacked a woman when she had done nothing to provoke any violence, pulled her to the ground, kicked and punched her and strongly pulled her hair.

Even when the injured woman ran to a shop, the storekeeper had to bar Singh’s way after she followed after her.