Transgender beautician who pushed police officer onto Tube tracks after four bottles of prosecco is spared jail

A transgender beautician who pushed an off-duty police officer onto a railway line has been spared a jail sentence by a judge who said she has “special vulnerabilities”.

Paris Valeta Bregazzi, 30, had drunk four bottles of prosecco on a night out when she shoved Pc Sam Chegwin onto the tracks at Hanger Lane station in Ealing.

The officer, who was on his commute to work, told Bregazzi to “calm down” when he spotted her arguing with a friend on the platform, worrying that she was about to turn violent.

She told him to “mind your own business”, and when Pc Chegwin pushed her in the chest she responded by barging him onto the tracks.

The officer narrowly avoided hitting his head on the rails in the incident, shortly after 5am on July 17 last year, and was able to clamber back onto the platform to arrest Bregazzi.

She admitted having difficulties controlling her emotions, and said she acted “spontaneously” when Pc Chegwin had pushed her in the chest because she had recently undergone surgery.

Today at the Old Bailey, Recorder Jeremy Dein QC insisted he did not want to “undermine the gravity of the offence” but spared Bregazzi jail because of her “conglomeration of emotional and personal difficulties”. “It is clear to me you struggle to manage problems appropriately, in particular your emotions,” he told her. “You have to control yourself.

“Pc Chegwin is extremely fortunate he wasn’t seriously injured or killed and so are you,” he said. Bregazzi nodded as the sentence was passed.

The judge sentenced her to six months in prison suspended for two years, and ordered her to undergo 20 days of rehab.

“In not sending you to prison, I have particular regard to the conglomeration of emotional and personal difficulties,” he said.

“But I want to make it crystal clear I don’t in any way undermine the gravity of the offence — Pc Chegwin was acting in a public-spirited manner, intervening and seeking to prevent the escalation of violence.”

But he said Bregazzi, who is taking medication for depression and a psychotic illness, was a person of “special vulnerabilities”.

The court heard previously that she has struggled to deal with her parents’ rejection when she came out aged 19.

Bregazzi, who lives in Archway, pleaded guilty to doing an unlawful act on a railway with intent to endanger a person.