40,000 residents of two Cambridgeshire towns were handed some respite by a court after a woman was banned from one of them where she had attacked a shop worker. She was also given an exclusion order from the town centre of the other.
Emma Coppolaro – who also uses the surname Dymoke – was banned from St Ives and given an exclusion curfew from Huntingdon town centre for five years.
Coppolaro, 44, now of Payne Road, Sawtry, but previously of Fox Grove, Godmanchester, was handed a Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) at Huntingdon Magistrates’ Court on Friday (15 December), which states she must not:
- Enter St Ives
- Enter the area of Lammas Gardens or any property within Lammas Gardens in Huntingdon
- Enter Huntingdon town centre between 8am and 8pm except for prearranged or agreed appointments
- Enter Huntingdon bus station at any time.
The CBO follows a conviction for assault occasioning actual bodily harm and assault by beating on 7 August in Sheep Market, St Ives, where she assaulted a shop worker.
The St Ives local paper, The Riverporter, reported at the time that the assault took place at around 5.45pm a shop was shutting when four people, three men and a woman, attacked a worker causing injuries, including a black eye.
“Fortunately, there were 8 witnesses, and the police were soon on hand to arrest the perpetrators,” the paper reported.
“One of the attackers had previously been barred from the shop for shop lifting and this is thought to be the reason for the attack.”
Copporalo was one of those arrested and charged and when she appeared in court on Friday she was given an 18-month Community Order with a 30-day Rehabilitation Activity Requirement and a nine-month drug rehabilitation requirement.
PC Janine Hagger said: “We hope this order will provide some respite to businesses and individuals in the areas. Any breaches of the CBO will be dealt with robustly.”
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