The teenager was fined £200 and given a one-year conditional discharge PIcture:SWNSA teenager has warned of the dangers of taking the ‘legal’ party drug Benzo Fury after she was arrested for walking naked into a Tesco store.
Katie Wilson, 19, also karate kicked a police officer in the face barefoot and booted the wing-mirror off a patrol car after staff dialled 999.
The spaced-out shop assistant flipped out after taking the party drug on May 23.
Katie was fined £200 and given a one-year conditional discharge after she admitted outraging public decency and criminal damage at Grantham Magistrates Court on Monday.
Katie, from Lincs., spoke about her ‘terrifying trip‘ and urged others not to take the drug.
She said: ’I have learnt my lesson. If anything this has been the making of me - it was the real wake-up call I needed.
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’I'm so embarrassed about it, I'm just horrified that it made become something I'm not.
’I was an absolute mess - I trashed my friends flat and then I just walked out of the flat stumbled up the road and into the store.
The drug was blamed for the death of a Scottish teenager at the RockNess festival. PA’I was parading through the Tesco aisles like a catwalk diva. I was a disgrace and it was a real terrifying trip.
’I had chewed a pen so it looked like I had black teeth and I had drawings all over my body.
’The police thought I was a heroin addict.
’But I'm really a decent girl - I drive a BMW and I work hard, it really wasn't me.
’I haven't been out for about a month now and I'm really into my fitness - I'm a changed girl and I would advise other people to stay away from the drug.
’It is very dangerous and it can do you real damage - I don't want others to make the same mistake I did.’
The court heard Katie walked into the Tesco store in Bourne, Lincs., just after midday in front of stunned shoppers.
Daniel Paulson, prosecuting, said: ’She was then taken to a back office where something was found for her to wear.
’Police then attended and placed Miss Wilson under arrest.’
However, Wilson refused to leave quietly and kicked an officer, broke the wing mirror as well as damaging a light inside the police car.
Mr Paulson added: ’She admitted the offences in interview.
’She said she had taken legal drugs which caused her to act in the way she did.’
Rob Arthur, defending, told the court: "The fact she went out to Tesco in Bourne naked shows the mental state she was in.
’These experiences mean she will never risk taking such substances again.
’This is clearly a day Miss Wilson would like to put out of her memory if she could.
’I don't think she could be any more apologetic to the officer in relation to her behaviour that day.’
Chairman of the bench Jo Johnson told her: ’I hope you have learnt your lesson.’
