A PINT-sized teenager who had been "drinking in the Last Chance Saloon" has been locked up for assaulting a chip shop worker and attacking police.

The blonde 14-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, screamed as she was given a six-month detention and training order yesterday.

Worcester magistrates heard the girl hit a policeman in the face with a windscreen wiper she ripped off a squad car, kicked another officer in the head as he drove and booted the inside of a police van so hard the cage came off its rivets.

Sally Badham, prosecuting, said that only a fortnight after magistrates sentenced her for 15 similar crimes the girl - dubbed a "wildcat" in a previous court case - smashed a window at the Warndon Spar.

"She ripped a windscreen wiper off the car when she was arrested, hitting PC Chris Percival in the face with it," she said.

"They put her in a police van but she kicked the interior causing the cage to loosen from its mouldings."

Three weeks later, the girl broke a restraining order to hit Rebecca Yeomans with an umbrella as she worked in Warndon's fish and chip shop.

The girl's friends laughed outside as she carried out the attack.

Last week, she lashed out at PC Steve Conroy when he arrested her for breaching bail conditions to keep out of Spar.

"She continued to struggle violently and swore," said Mrs Badham, who added that the girl's wrists were so tiny that the handcuffs had to be tightened to their smallest setting.

"PC Conroy bundled her into the Astra van. PC Percival held her in the back.

"She broke free, kicked out between the two front seats and hit PC Conroy in the head and shoulders.

"The vehicle swerved - there could have been an accident."

Ian Pugh, defending, said Miss Yeomans' family goaded the girl into breaching the restraining order, imposed in August after a harassment campaign.

Officers had also been unnecessarily heavy-handed, she had told him.

"She's the kind of girl that needs to be the centre of attention," he said.

"She's articulate, thoroughly bored and has lots of time on her hands.

"The last bench warned her she was drinking in the Last Chance Saloon. She hasn't had that chance yet."

The girl, who admitted eight charges including assaulting police officers, criminal damage and harassment, wept as she was led from court.

"Please don't let them take her," her mother screamed, clutching the girl. "What about Christmas?"

An application by the Evening News to lift the juvenile's automatic right to anonymity was turned down by magistrates.