Derry woman dialled 999 and asked for lift home after 'mad auld binge'
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Version 0 of 1. A Derry woman who called police asking for a lift to her mother's house had been on "a mad auld binge", a court was told. Denise Hynds, 44, said "please help me" to the operator and after further calls was tracked down to a house in the town of Limavady. When police arrived at the house they found Hynds sat at the kitchen table drinking from a can of beer, the Derry Journal reports. She did not appear to be in any danger. She admitted she just wanted a lift to her mother's house, but police told her they were not a cab service, the court heard. Hynds told police she had been on a "mad auld binge" and had also taken a lot of medication. She has been charged with wasting police time. Her defence solicitor, Paddy McGurk, said she was aware of the seriousness of her crime. She was a "model prisoner", he added, who was doing "everything she could to get away from a spiral of drink and drugs". Hynds was given a four-month sentence, running concurrent to the sentence she is already serving, for wasting police time by making a false report. "You're building yourself up a bit of a record," the judge said while sentencing her. |