A mum shamed as a lager lout after starting a string of boozy brawls in her hometown has avoided jail - after blaming the town for her bad behaviour.
Tyler Murray, 26, has been repeatedly in and out of courts after causing drunken trouble when frequenting her local pubs and takeaways. In one incident in Macclesfield, Cheshire, Murray kicked a policeman in the face and hurled racist abuse as she was being detained for being aggressive towards door staff at a bar in the town.
In another, she called a barmaid a "p***k" when she was refused alcohol and was subsequently accused of calling a colleague a "P**i b******" when she was thrown out. She later cited Macclesfield itself, which is ranked as one of the ''happiest in the UK'', as a factor in her behaviour saying: ''I just don't like the town.''
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At Crewe magistrates court, mother of three Murray, who lives on the Weston estate in Macclesfield, admitted using threatening behaviour but denied making racist comments. She was ordered to pay £50 damages to barmaid Jenna Naylor and a further £50 compensation to her pub colleague.
“I would like to object to the racial abuse,'' Murray told the Justices of the Peace. ''I do not remember calling anybody a racial name. I did not call anybody any racial words.
"I admit that I was drunk and disorderly but I did not mention anything racist. I do suffer from mental health. I just don't like the town.”
The latest incident occurred in the Swan With Two Necks in Macclesfield on February 8 this year - just two months after Murray was fined £80 for being drunk and disorderly.
Sarah McInerny, prosecuting, said: “She was trying to purchase a drink but was declined and staff ejected her from the pub. During an argument the defendant called the bar lady a 'p**ck'. She left the pub and went to a takeaway but police attended the scene and located the defendant.
“The officers also received a report from the landlady of the pub after someone as called a ‘p**i b*****d’ in the incident. There was persistent and continued abuse of more than one victim.''
Miss McInerny initially asked for an uplift in sentence due to the racial nature of the offence as well as compensation for both victims. However, after Tyler denied having made any racist remarks, the prosecutor agreed to accept her guilty plea on the basis she had not made a racist comment.
In 2016, Murray was fined £50 and given a curfew for two months preventing her from leaving her house from 8pm to 7am after she admitted two charges of assaulting a police constable, assault and racially aggravated threatening or abusive words or behaviour.
At the time prosecutors said police were called at 1.30am to reports of her woman ‘causing issues’ outside a takeaway on Mill Street. Door staff told police she was displaying ''aggression towards people'' and was shouting about a previous incident.
Police went to arrest her but she began kicking out and officers had to turn her onto her front to cuff her. She then kicked one officer in the face to the left of the jaw before she began kicking out again as she was carried to a police van.
She later said she had drunk too much alcohol as suffered from anxiety due to post natal depression and didn’t remember parts of the evening.
Murray, of Hewetson Crescent, was also ordered to pay £120 costs. Justice of the Peace, Neil Fowkes, told her: “You are only 26 years old and you have a number of offences involving drink. You need to be careful. It’s not the way you want your life to go.”
Formerly known for being a hub for the silk industry and accurately nicknamed 'Silk Town', Macclesfield attracts a quite affluent population and in 2022 was ranked as one of the happiest places in the UK in a survey by RightMove.
Blues singer John Mayall was born in the town whilst Macclesfield was also the home town of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis and Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert of New Order. A memorial to Curtis is located at Macclesfield Crematorium.
