A woman who spat at another woman in the street and coughed in the faces of emergency workers in Croydon has been jailed.

52 year old Carol Cowan pleaded guilty to a number of charges following the assault on Monday morning.

Police patrolling Westow Street were flagged down by a member of the public who had been subjected to verbal racial abuse by a woman.

The woman in question also spat in her face.

The officers located the woman and detained her.

When inside the police vehicle the woman told officers that she was a Covid-19 sufferer and began to cough in their faces.

Cowan was arrested on suspicion of a Section 4 Public Order offence and common assault.

She’s been jailed for 46 weeks.