Woman given suspended sentence, €800 fine for drunk attack on police in Zejtun

Ritianne Cutajar, 35, from Marsascala was arrested yesterday after attacking three policemen who had been called to a Zejtun bar

One woman's fiery temperament landed her a criminal conviction and a fine, after she admitted to having attacked a number of men yesterday, allegedly whilst under the influence of alcohol.

Ritianne Cutajar, 35, from Marsascala was arrested yesterday after attacking three policemen who had been called to a Zejtun bar where she had allegedly been making a drunken nuisance of herself and had asked her to leave.

Before magistrate Anthony Vella his afternoon, Cutajar pleaded guilty to charges of insulting and threatening a police officer on duty, violently resisting three police officers, slightly injuring two of them. 

Cutajar had also been charged with a slew of public order offences, which included attacking three men from Zejtun with intent to insult or harass them, giving false particulars to a public official, being drunk and disorderly in public, breaching the peace, uttering obscenities in public and disobeying police orders.



She was further accused of reviling and insulting a doctor who was tasked with treating the woman at the Paola Health Centre.

The woman is understood to have gone to a Zejtun bar to buy cigarettes but had become embroiled in an argument with a male friend of her baby's father, from whom she is believed to be estranged.



In view of her admission, the court handed Cutajar a one-year prison sentence, suspended for two years, together with fine of €800.

Senior Police Inspector Johann Fenech prosecuted. Lawyers Dean Hili and Joseph Gatt were Cutajar's defence counsel.