A soft porn model from Manchester who has racked up a string of criminal convictions has escaped jail despite missing two meetings aimed at helping her stay out of trouble… so she could have a boob job.
Sophie Dalzell, 20, who has a history of defying court orders should have met twice with probation officers as part of a rehabilitation programme to explain why she attacked two policemen in a drink-fuelled attack.
But instead the blonde topless model, who has appeared on adult TV shows, flew to Brussels in Belgium for cosmetic surgery to have her breasts enhanced.
On her arrival back to Britain she was ordered back to court accused of failing to comply with the requirements of her community order and a separate charge of failing to answer bail.
At Manchester Magistrates’ court, Dalzell faced a possible jail term for the breach but was found not guilty after she produced a letter from her plastic surgeon confirming the operation had taken place.
She also argued that she had warned probation officers in advance she was due to have the surgery. She was fined £75 plus a £20 victim surcharge for failing to answer bail.
Last year Dalzell, who has 11 convictions for petty vandalism and assault, refused to wear an electronic tag on her ankle because she feared it would put her out of work.
JPs at the time fined her after she admitted breaching a community order but ruled she would not have to wear the tag.
In a statement today Dalzell, who lives in North Manchester, said: ” I’m just annoyed I have had to go through this when I haven’t done anything wrong. I went for a breast enlargement.
”They were fine about it at the time and now they have tried to accuse me of breaching it.”
Dalzell had originally been ordered to carry out 100 hours of community service in 2012 for criminal damage after she scratched a man’s car following a row outside a Manchester nightclub.
She failed to carry out the unpaid work and was later hauled back to court, placed on curfew and ordered to wear the tag for eight weeks.
But in December 2012 when security firm G4S went to her house to install monitoring equipment and fit the tag she told them she had a contract for TV-based glamour modelling.
She said wouldn’t be able to do the work with a tag on her ankle.
In April last year Dalzell was brought back to court again for breach of a court order where she was fined £200 and ordered to pay £75 costs.
But she escaped having to wear the tag after it emerged she had been appealing against her conviction at the time. She also claimed the tag was ‘an eyesore’ and would ruin her modelling work as ‘appearance is everything’.
She said she had initially denied breaching the order but only changed her plea to guilty saying a trial would conflict with a modelling shoot and nightclub assignment in Ibiza.
At the time JPs said she would not have to wear the tag but in May last year she was back in court after assaulting two PCs during a night out in her home town of Workington, Cumbria.
She was handed a community order and instructed to attend a Thinking Skills course and was ordered to pay more than £1,000 costs and compensation to the officers.
At the time she said: “I just keep getting provoked. Basically, they’re jealous that I’ve got out of Cumbria and I’ve done something with my life.
“Modelling is just something I fell into and thoroughly enjoy. But what I really want to do is TV presenting.”
Organisers of the Thinking Skills programme told Dalzell she would have to join group sessions during which offenders would be advised of ways to stop committing crime under three modules – Self-Control, Problem Solving and Positive Relationships.
Last November she publicly accused TV star Gemma Atkinson of assaulting her in a nightclub during a drunken argument.
Police later took no action against the former Hollyoaks actress due to lack of evidence.
On Tuesday in court, it emerged Dalzell still owes more than £150 in unpaid fines.
But her lawyer John Morris, said: “There certainly seems to have been a breakdown in the relationship between some probation officers and the client.”
A spokesman for the Cheshire and Greater Manchester Community Rehabilitation Company said: “When appropriate, we return offenders to court for failure to comply with their orders.”
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