A WOMAN vandalised a youth club causing £2,000 worth of damage, a court heard.

Elizabeth Rosemary Martin, also known as Elizabeth Millner, also caused criminal damage to a shop and assaulted several employees.

Martin, aged 31, of Sandringham Court, Dorchester, previously admitted offences at Weymouth Magistrates Court and returned to the same court to be sentenced.

The court heard that on June 8, Martin vandalised the Dorchester Youth and Community Centre on Kings Road by extensively spray painting the walls, windows, doors, waste bins and fences at the youth club.

Different phrases were spray painted at the premises.

She appeared before the court via video link to be sentenced for this offence and several others, including multiple assaults to shop staff at the Co-op on Trinity Street in Dorchester.

Charles Nightingale, prosecuting, said Martin was banned from this store but continued to return, causing criminal damage on a number of occasions totalling more than £400.

Martin also assaulted five people at the store between May 24 and June 14.

The court heard that, after Martin's arrest following her most recent visit to the Co-op, she tried to bite custody staff at the police station and caused criminal damage to her cell by smearing blood on the walls.

Martin was given a three-year Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) which has a clause preventing her from going to the Dorchester Youth and Community Centre on Kings Road. It also prohibits her acting in an anti-social manner and entering stores she has been banned from.

The magistrate, Mr Ford, told the defendant: "We feel you are in need of a considerable amount of help."

Martin was also given a 12-month Community Order which includes 40 days rehabilitation requirement, the nature of which can be decided by the probation service.

She was ordered to pay £80 compensation to the youth club.