A 41-year-old woman who caused two disturbances at Borders General Hospital has been jailed for five months at Selkirk Sheriff Court.

In between the hospital offences drunken Kellie Marie Carter was also abusive to staff in a Galashiels public house and set fire to cardboard outside the premises after being ejected.

The court was told Carter was abusive to medical staff and police officers after being taken to the hospital for treatment on December 17 - including digging her nails into the wrist of a constable causing the injury to bleed.

On January 2 she was refused service at the Gluepot pub and was abusive to staff before being thrown out and then setting fire to a pile of cardboard.

Carter pleaded guilty to a series of offences during a three-hour disturbance at the hospital on February 24 where again she was abusive to both medical staff and police - and she assaulted an officer before leg restraints were put on.

She described police and nursing staff as "rapists and paedophiles" and when told she was upsetting other patients including children with her behaviour Carter replied she did not care.

Carter, of Fisher Avenue, Hawick, received jail sentences totalling five months for all three incidents.