HIV Positive mother ‘flicked blood toward bailiff’ in parking ticket row

Chanelle Miller was so violent the two men locked themselves in her bathroom until police arrived followed by an ambulance crew, Wolverhampton Crown Court was told.

Then the 34-year-old defendant confessed to a paramedic she was HIV positive and the enforcement agents were immediately taken to hospital for tests, explained Miss Siobhan Collins, prosecuting.

Miller had not paid a parking ticket which was eight months old and had soared to around £400 with court and bailiff costs.

So enforcement officers Dean Allen and Bryan Wall arrived at her Darlaston Road, Bilston, home armed with a county court warrant that allowed them to seize goods to the value of the debt.

“The proper procedures had been followed,” explained Miss Collins.

But the defendant, who denied the allegations levelled against her, insisted the bailiffs had entered the house illegally.

Mr Allen told the jury: “Her reaction was ‘not interested, not paying it’, and she shut the door.

“We knocked again, opened the door – which was unlocked – and made a peaceful entry into the house, which we were legally entitled to do. She told us to get out or she would cut me up.

“She said this aggressively and started to punch me on the forehead.

“I was trying to stop her from hitting me.”

Then she smashed a large tumbler and came at me with the broken glass, he claimed, before adding: “She was trying to cut my neck.”

In the ensuing struggle both he and the defendant were cut, allowing him to grab the broken glass and throw it into the garden, the court heard.

Mr Allen accused Miller of flicking her blood over him during the incident and maintained: “I had splatters in my mouth and hair and on my face and clothes.

“We went upstairs, locked ourselves in the bathroom for safety and did not come out until the police we alerted arrived. Then one of the officers told me we may have been exposed to the HIV virus.”

Both men later had HIV tests, which proved negative after a three-month wait for the results.

Miller accused them of “bully boy tactics” and told the jury: “They were threatening and aggressive and forced entry.

“I met aggression with aggression but didn’t assault, wound or flick blood at anybody.”

She denied administering a poison or noxious substance with intent to Mr Allen and Mr Wall on September 11, 2017.

She further denied attempting to wound Mr Allen with intent on the same date.

The trial continues