A 31-year-old Douglas woman has been sentenced to 14 days’ jail for a common assault.

Jessica Marguerita Radcliffe, of Cushag Road, is already serving a sentence until November 8 so the latest term will run concurrently.

Prosecuting advocate Barry Swain told the court that, on November 15 last year, Radcliffe was on West Quay in Ramsey at 1.30am when she got involved in a row with a man.

She had been claiming on social media that he was a paedophile and struck the man with a flailing arm.

Another man who was there told the victim that he would pretend to punch him to help get him away from the scene, which he then did.

In court Radcliffe, who hit the headlines in December as the girlfriend of the man who claimed to sail to the Isle of Man from Scotland on a jet ski, pleaded guilty to common assault.

Defence advocate Louise Cooil said that the offence had occurred last November but the charge had not been laid until two days before the six-month deadline.

Ms Cooil said that her client had no memory of the incident but had watched it on CCTV footage and accepted the facts.

’It was a reckless flailing action rather than a punch,’ said the advocate.

’The injuries were relatively minor and it was a relatively short incident.’

Ms Cooil went on to say that Radcliffe was currently serving a sentence for an offence that post-dated the common assault, and if all matters had been dealt with together it may have been a concurrent sentence.

Radcliffe was jailed in July for eight months for assault causing actual bodily harm, assaulting a police officer, and property damage, after an attack on a woman in her home.

Magistrates agreed to impose the 14-day sentence to run concurrently to the eight months imposed in July.