A WORCESTER teenager who barricaded herself between police officers and her boyfriend when they tried to arrest him has been fined.

Kirsty Price, aged 18, of Carlisle Road, Ronkswood, was fined £65 for obstructing a police officer and made the subject of a 28-day curfew between 6pm and 6am for breaching a youth rehabilitation order.

The Worcester News reported last week that Price initially told police officers she did not know where her partner was when they attended his Worcester home on Friday, September 23, although they had seen him outside the property minutes earlier.

Colin Heald, prosecuting at Worcester Magistrates Court, said when officers went into the address they were confronted by Price who swore at them and told them they could not go into the property without a warrant.

Mr Heald said: “The defendant stood at the bottom of the stairs and said they were not going upstairs.

“Officers tried to walk past her, but she physically stopped them.

“The boyfriend appeared at the top of the stairs, he shouted and swore at officers then jumped out of a rear bedroom window.”

Price, who had previously admitted obstructing police, also pleaded guilty to failing to comply with the requirements of the youth rehabilitation order by missing a supervision appointment on September 23.

Andy Childs, defending, said: “She told me that genuinely she did not know where he was.

"She did not think the police had the right to come in.

"But she physically stood in their way and she accepts that.”

Mr Childs said that Price missed the supervision appointment because she had been arrested for the obstruction.

She was also ordered to pay £85 costs and a £15 victim surcharge.