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A heroin addict caught having sex in public then attacked a police officer with a tampon.

Tracy Ann Myers, 34, ripped off her sanitary towel, pulled out a tampon and hurled them at officers while being subject to a strip search at a police station.

The sanitary towel missed but the tampon struck an officer.

She then defecated in her cell and when she later appeared in court , she spat at Daily Record press photographer, Andrew Price.

It landed on his coat near his waist.

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She has now been jailed after admitting to a string of offences, including outraging public indecency, assaulting a police officer and criminal damage to her cell.

She was also found guilty of assaulting the photographer, shoplifting offences and failing to answer her bail.

District Judge Gwyn Jones told her that some of her offending was "horrific" when she appeared at North East Wales Magistrates' Court this week.

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Myers blamed much of her offending on her mental health state, her heroin addiction, and said she and her partner had sex at a shopping park, in Wrexham, because they were homeless.

People were passing by and shouting at them so they tried to hide what they were doing by putting cardboard up, she told police.

They were caught indulging in various sexual acts on CCTV at around 9pm on August 29, including intercourse and oral sex.

She and her partner, David Nash, were arrested and it was there she threw her sanitary towel and tampon at the officer, and defecated in her cell.

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After being bailed, she went on to steal coats from New Look to fund her heroin addiction.

When interviewed, she claimed she and her partner were just 'rubbing each other' and not having sex - but later changed her story after CCTV footage came to light.

She blamed her mental health issues and paranoia on the reason she spat at the photographer, saying she felt intimidated as the camera was "in her face."

She added that she was embarrassed, admitted there was "no excuse" for assaulting the officer or defecating in her cell.

Defending solicitor, Christine Ankers-Phillips, said she was not proud of her actions.

“She says that they did try and hide themselves from the public by putting up cardboard,” she added.

Myers had been homeless for some time, suffered from schizophrenia and in custody had not had her medication.

She was forced to give Mr Price £100 in compensation.