A jobless mother-of-five who twice urinated on a war memorial while drunk has been jailed for seven months.
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Kelly Martin, 42, outraged public decency when she desecrated the monument in broad daylight in Grays, Essex, first in April when there were still Remembrance poppy wreaths on it.<br><br>
She did so a second time while on bail in June, the day before the 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Somme.<br><br>
Martin, who wore a blue vest top and had her hair in an off-centre pony tail, shouted 'f*** this' Judge John Lodge, sentencing, said: 'Each of these offences is so serious that only a custodial sentence is appropriate. The two cases of outraging public decency involve urinating on a war memorial.
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'Inevitably war memorials were constructed at the centre of towns and villages so on a daily basis people could be reminded of the sacrifices made by people who died.
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'People use them as a place around which they congregate and that's not wrong, but when people take that step further and abuse them by urinating on them that's a matter the court needs to take very seriously indeed.'as she was led down to the cells at Basildon Crown Court today.<br><br>
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