A WOMAN spent nearly ten hours locked up because she refused to leave York Hospital when staff asked her to, the city's magistrates heard.
Prosecutor Mike Duffy said that doctors found nothing wrong with Karen Anne Bulmer, 35, when she arrived at the accident and emergency department in the early hours of yesterday.
They asked her to leave, but she lay on the floor and staff had to call police to move her.
Officers put her in a police cell and sent her in custody to York Magistrates Court.
After hearing that she had spent nearly ten hours locked up since her arrest at 2am, magistrates gave Bulmer, of Cemetery Road, an absolute discharge. She admitted being drunk in a public place.
For her, Sally Howard said a member of the public had called an ambulance for Bulmer after she had a seizure in public.
Although medical checks revealed only that she was drunk, Bulmer felt "strange" as though she had had drugs. So she lay on the hospital floor to have a rest.
Updated: 09:24 Wednesday, March 19, 2003
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