Derry woman dialled 999 and asked for lift home after 'mad auld binge'
When police arrived at the house they found the woman sat at the kitchen table drinking from a can of beer
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Your support makes all the difference.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.
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