A MOTHER was so drunk after downing a bottle of rose wine that she rammed her baby daughter’s pram against a wall.

The woman, who The Bolton News has chosen not to name, had gone to Radcliffe to pick up her mum’s mobile phone from a repair shop on June 7.

But Ann Deakin, prosecuting, told Bolton Magistrates’ Court how police were called at 10.30pm after someone saw a man gripping hold of a woman and screaming at her.

“There were also reports of a baby in a pram being thrown from side to side whilst the man was screaming and threatening to push the female into the canal,” said Miss Deakin.

Police arrived on the scene and found both heavily intoxicated.

“They were holding hands and the pram was being thrown all over the pavement with the baby inside,” said Miss Deakin.

“The female was slurring her speech and couldn’t stand straight and had glazed eyes.

“The female allowed the pram to fall back with the baby inside. She was also pushing the pram into a wall and it was clear to police that she didn’t have any regard for the safety of the child.”

The woman was arrested but was repeatedly abusive to officers, at one point raising her foot and kicking one of them in the kneecap and later, at Pendleton police station, shouting racial abuse.

The woman pleaded guilty to being drunk in charge of a child, using racial threatening behaviour and assaulting a police officer.

Rahil Khan, defending, said the a mother-of-three, had suffered a great deal of trauma in the recent past, including fleeing an abusive relationship, her mother being diagnosed with cancer and the deaths of close family members.

“But she makes no excuse for her actions,” he said.

“The trauma that she suffered makes her susceptible to behaving in an inappropriate manner and possibly aggressively.”

He added that she took her daughter with her to collect her mother’s phone.

“She decides, something which she has not done previously, to buy a bottle of Blossom Hill rose wine, which she drinks,” said Mr Khan.

“She has no recollection then of what takes place.”

The court heard that a man she did not know, who was also drinking, persuaded her to go to the canal tow path near the Royal Oak pub.

But he then began to threaten her, claiming he would throw her in the canal.

The court heard that the woman’s oldest two children live with their fathers and, although social services have been involved, the baby has not been removed from her care.

“There is a great deal of regret on the part of her with regard to what has taken place and shame,” said Mr Khan.

Magistrates handed the woman an 18 month community sentence during which she has to undertake 60 hours of unpaid work and participate in 20 days or rehabilitation activities.

She must also pay the police officers a total of £200 in compensation.

Magistrate Peter Jones told her: “You have been through a traumatic time recently, it’s been absolutely horrendous but we can’t have people drinking on the streets of Radcliffe and then putting a child in danger.”