Louise Joan Corkill, aged 45, of Lord Street, Douglas, has received a 12-month conditional discharge after admitted being found drunk in a public place.

Prosecutor Hazel Carroon this week told the court how, at 12.15am on February 10, police were called to Victoria Street after a report of a group of people involved in an altercation outside the Nag’s Head pub.

When police arrived they found only Corkill outside the pub with the other people having left the scene.

She was said to be smelling of alcohol and unsteady on her feet.

Police told her to go home several times but Corkill refused saying: ’I’m not going home I’m going for a walk.’

She then tried to go into the pub and was subsequently arrested.

Advocate Matthew Wilshaw said: ’She says that two ladies came out of the pub and started to remonstrate with her. She says she was on the receiving end of the physical altercation

’She says the people who remonstrated with her were up the road and this is why she didn’t want to go home as she would have had to walk past these people. But she accepts she was drunk in a public place.’

Corkill was also ordered by Deputy High Bailiff Jayne Hughes to pay £125 costs.