Racist rant woman Woodhouse jailed

Justice is served ?

A drunk passenger who hurled racist abuse at fellow Tube travellers on the Central Line earlier this year has been jailed today for 21 weeks.

Jacqueline Woodhouse, launched an expletive-laden racist tirade at passengers of the packed tube. A seven-minute video of the verbal assault filmed by another passenger was uploaded to YouTube and was instrumental in bringing Woodhouse to justice. She also threatened to punch one passenger.

You can f****** sing my f****** dear friend. I hope they f****** catch up with you and shove you off. I will punch you in the face, you are a f****** joke. Pakistani f****** losers.

She added, 

I'll have you arrested because you don't live here.

and

I hope you are not claiming benefits.

Claire Campbell, prosecuting, said Woodhouse, who has since lost her job and is now claiming benefits, began her stream of abuse after a retirement party when she was feeling a little "worse for wear". She had drunk an unknown quantity of champagne.

In December 2008, Woodhouse was fined following a similar offence on the DLR. She verbally abused a male passenger while on a train to Stratford. She asked whether he had paid taxes, adding:

I have had enough of it. Why don't they go back to where they come from?"

There will be many who will argue that the sentence doesn’t fit the crime, but having been brought before the courts before and fined that clearer didn’t dissuade her from repeating the act only with more venom and the threat of violence.

But if you were the judge what sentence would you give, and might it include anger management and alcoholics anonymous?

Francine Fernandes & Simon Woolley