Former Law Society Council member Frances Brough has been jailed for six months for spitting at her elderly parents, harrassing a terminally-ill pensioner and trying to bite police.

Brough was suspended from the Law Society Council in 2011 after being accused of fiddling her expenses. Her latest started when she drunkenly confronted her 74 year old mum and 82 year old dad about their wills. At the pre-trial hearing the court heard how she called her mum incontinent and smelly and spat in her face six times. Mr Brough said his daughter then “spat violently in my face and said she wished I was dead. I just felt like collapsing”.

Police had to carry Brough away from the scene, while she tried to bite them. Much like in 2011 when she sunk her teeth into the arm of a neighbour's daughter and hung on "like a dog".
 

Brough in happier times

The PI lawyer initially denied the charges and argued that her parents lacked the mental capacity to make statements. But this week, just before she was due to stand trial, she changed her plea to guilty. She also admitted making silent phone calls to her mum and harrassing her 83-year-old terminally-ill neighbour to whom she said "here comes the dying one", before threatening to "destroy" her.

In mitigation Brough's lawyer said she was once "the perfect member of society". Well perhaps, until all this fiddling expenses, assaulting elderly people and biting policemen stuff of course.