Overview
- Abbie Taylor, 47, who admitted four breaches of a Criminal Behaviour Order, was jailed Tuesday at Newcastle Crown Court for 30 months.
- The order, imposed in 2023, bans Taylor from going near nurseries and from loitering by bins to scavenge used nappies or incontinence pads.
- The latest offences in late December and early January involved rummaging through household bins, taking rubbish bags, and leaving used pads strewn in a garden, with photos and CCTV backing up complaints.
- A psychiatrist told the court the behaviour was not sexually motivated, which the judge accepted while calling it grossly anti-social and warning of longer terms for any future breaches.
- Taylor has a long record, including 99 previous convictions and earlier incidents at nurseries that spread excrement on bottles and a fire escape, and media reports say she was held on remand in a men's prison.