A lady has averted jail after throwing a milkshake at Nigel Farage throughout his common election marketing campaign in Clacton-on-Sea.

Victoria Thomas Bowen, 25, was sentenced to 13 weeks in jail suspended for 12 months.

She had hurled the drink on the Reform UK MP, 60, as he left the Moon and Starfish Wetherspoon pub within the Essex city on 4 June.

She pleaded responsible to assault by beating and prison injury at Westminster Magistrates Court docket on 21 October, the place she was additionally handed her sentence on Monday.

Thomas Bowen, who’s an OnlyFans mannequin, was arrested shortly after the incident. She advised police she noticed a publish internet marketing Mr Farage’s rally in her hometown that day, the courtroom heard beforehand.

She advised officers she “doesn’t agree together with his political beliefs” and when she noticed him leaving the pub, determined to behave as a result of she “had the chance”.

The prison injury to the jacket Mr Farage’s safety officer James Woolfenden was sporting amounted to £17.50, the courtroom was advised.

In a witness assertion learn out in courtroom in October, Mr Farage mentioned he was not injured however “this incident precipitated me concern as I’ve solely been going about my job” and that he tries to “have as a lot public engagement as doable”.

“I am saddened that this has occurred at a public marketing campaign,” he added.

Mr Farage, who’s now the chief of his celebration, went on to win the Clacton-on-Sea seat from the Conservative incumbent Giles Watling.

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