Woman branded ‘Britain’s most disgusting person’ on the run from court

A woman branded “Britain’s most disgusting person” after urinating on a war memorial was on the run last night after fleeing court.

Wendy Lewis, 32, was given a “guard of dishonour” by angry war veterans – to whom she addressed the four-lettered word when she appeared at Blackpool Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

But she fled the building 20 minutes later and a warrant has now been issued for her arrest.

Ms Lewis had been caught on CCTV relieving herself on the Cenotaph in the town before performing a sex act on a man in public.

She was found guilty of outraging public decency at an earlier hearing and was due to be sentenced yesterday, where a community service order was expected as punishment. But Ms Lewis, who arrived 40 minutes late for her 9.30 a.m. court appoint-ment, promptly disappeared 20 minutes later before her case was called on in court.

Veterans waited until 3.40 p.m. yesterday until her case was dealt with, when JPs issued the warrant for her arrest.

Earlier, Ms Lewis, of Princess Street, Blackpool, had run the gauntlet of angry old soldiers when she first arrived. She covered her face with a hood and lashed out at photographers and TV crews as she walked to the court building

A handful of veterans, proudly wearing berets and campaign medals on their blazers lined the court steps to form the “guard of dishonour” for Ms Lewis.

They clapped and shouted, “Disgusting!” as she entered the building to which Ms Lewis responded with the four-lettered word. Among them was former Royal Marine James Baker, 88, who served with 544 Assault Brigade and won the Distinguished Service Medal.

As an 18-year-old his unit of 38 Marines were the first on to Juno Beach on D-Day as a leading party for Canadian troops.

Badly wounded, only he and one other Marine made it off the beach alive, on a day he described as: “Not very pleasant at all.”

Mr Baker, supported by a walking stick, said: “In both World Wars the young men, and women, have honoured their country and done their duty, that’s all, done their duty.

“And this female, I nearly called her a lady, has disgraced her sex. It is unforgivable what she did in the face of these dead men. It can be neither forgiven nor forgotten by the ex-services’ community and the wider community as well. We are more disgusted than anything else.”