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A mum who attacked two social workers after her children were taken from her has avoided a jail sentence.

Michala Louise Creevy, 30,also attacked a family support worker shouting, “I should punch your f****** head in, in fact I will do.”

Creevy, of Peel Road in Bootle, received a 12 week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court today after earlier pleading guilty to three charges of assault.

The charges relate to an incident at 12.45pm on August 10 in Liverpool city centre after her four children were taken off her.

Creevy approached the first victim, a social worker, shouting: “You have had it, I am going to get you.”

The woman was then punched to the head and dragged to the floor by her hair.

A colleague attempted to intervene and was also punched, before being thrown to the floor and having her head smashed into the ground.

Creevy fled the scene in a taxi but around an hour later came across a family support worker known to her in the carpark of Tesco Metro in Overton Street, Edge Hill.

The woman was punched to the floor and curled up on the ground screaming for help as the defendant rained down blows.

The women all suffered injuries.

Deputy District Judge Sam Goozee, passing sentence, said: “Social workers in all walks of life do a very difficult job, particularly relating to child care, and they require protection.”

Gary Bryan, representing Creevy, said: “My client has told me, in her words: I feel terrible. I have never been brought up to behave in such a way.”

The court heard she had been suffering depression and anxiety and was not coping with her children.

Mr Bryan said his client now accepted the decision to remove her children was her own responsibility.

He said she had been receiving money from her mum due to a problem with her benefits but this had stopped because she had “brought shame on the family.”

The court heard Creevy had been referred to anger management counselling and was on medication for her depression.

Judge Goozee said the fact that Creevy had no previous convictions, her early guilty plea and vulnerability meant he would suspend the prison sentence.

Creevy was subjected to a rehabilitation activity requirement with the Probation Service and ordered to pay £50 compensation to each victim, £85 prosecution costs and a £150 criminal court charge