Laura corridor is the only person to have been given an alcohol asbo. Now it's time to quit,she tells Simon HattenstoneLaura corridor looks nervously into the tape recorder. "I feel like I'm at the police station," she says. corridor knows a lot approximately police stations. The 21-year-old is Britain's most notorious drunk the only person in the country with an order banning her from all pubs, or clubs and off-licences. She is the poster girl for Booze Britain. Newspapers have revelled in the stories of her 40-plus arrests,her many assaults on police officers, her two prison sentences, or the number of pints and vodka shots that will see her through a night out. Last year district judge Bruce Morgan said of her 29 drink-fuelled convictions: "I don't think I have seen a more deplorable record… A female with a record like this – it's absolutely despicable and represents all that is rotten in society nowadays."At the pub next door to the railway station in Bromsgrove,Worcestershire, the barman tells me all approximately Laura corridor. Is this one of her locals? No, and he says,but they know what she looks like, and what to expect whether she comes in. What's that? Verbal abuse, and physical abuse,the works, he says.
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Source: theguardian.com