A beautician who once pushed a police officer onto the Tube tracks has been jailed for a racially aggravated attack.
Paris Bregazzi, 37, of Hackney, appeared at Croydon Magistrates’ Court on Monday (November 4).
She was jailed for eight weeks after she pleaded guilty to racially aggravated assault by beating.
The assault took place against a woman in Southwark on Friday (November 1).
Bregazzi, who is transgender, has an extensive criminal record and was only recently released from prison for assaults against six different women in April.
On September 3 at Westminster Magistrates’ Court she was jailed for 24 weeks for those assaults.
Bregazzi made headlines in 2018 when she pushed an off-duty police officer onto the Tube tracks at Hanger Lane Station in Ealing.
A court heard Bregazzi had drunk four bottles of Prosecco and was arguing with a friend on the platform when PC Sam Chegwin intervened.
PC Chegwin pushed her in the chest in a defensive manner, ignorant of the fact she had recently had extensive breast surgery.
Bregazzi reacted by shoving him with force, sending him toppling onto the track, just inches from the line with a fast train seven minutes away.
Recorder Jeremy Dein KC told her on that occasion: “The fact is he could have been killed by falling and hitting his head, electrocuted or hit by an on-coming train but mercifully he maintained his consciousness and composure and managed to clamber back onto the platform.”
She was given a six-month jail term suspended for two years over that incident.
Later in 2018 she was given a 10 month prison sentence for the “protection of the public” after she was seen on Stockwell Road, south London, acting “aggressively” to two elderly ladies at a bus stop and throwing wheelie bins in the street.
She lobbed a brick into the road, smashing the window of a parked Ford Fiesta, before walking in front of a bus, which swerved to avoid her, the court heard.
She went on to knee arresting officer PC Florina Russ in the chest before being restrained by colleagues.
In interview, she explained she was “not in a good mood”.
Mitigating barristers previously described Bregazzi as a “very damaged individual who is in emotional pain” and has a “problem with people in uniform”.
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