Russian model barred from every pub in Britain has booze ban lifted

Irina Fedotova has had her sentence reduced for attacking police officers on appeal (Picture: Central News/Getty)

A Russian model who was barred from every pub, club and restaurant in Britain is free to paint the town red again.

Irina Fedotova bit a police officer while in handcuffs and being transported to hospital following a drunken brawl.

The 36-year-old also kicked a van door into another officer after police were called to deal with a row at a house in South Kensington, London.

She pleaded guilty to one count of assault by beating and two charges of assaults on emergency workers in April.

As part of her sentence, Fedotova was barred from every pub, club and restaurant in the country for two years.

Now the model, who lives in a £2 million apartment in Belgravia, has appealed her sentence and can hit the town once more.

During the hearing, she told the court she now intends to sue the Metropolitan Police over the affair.

She was originally sentenced at Westminster Magistrates’ Court back in April (Picture: Central News)

She said: ‘People don’t have any idea what really happened. I acted in self-defence and in hindsight, I should not have pleaded guilty.

‘Having watched the videotapes, I’ll now be suing the police for pushing me around as if I was a rag doll.

‘I want to carry on with my life and businesses now and begin a new chapter. Winning the appeal is the start of a new path I’m going to take.’

On top of the pub ban, she was also initially given a two-year community order and 150 hours of unpaid work.

But after new medical evidence came to light about treatment Fedotova was receiving at the time of the original offence, the sentence was torn up by magistrates – but she was still ordered to pay fines totalling £1,000.

Judge John Denniss has now reduced the sentenced and removed a pub ban at Isleworth Crown Court (Picture: Getty)

Fedotova, who now describes herself as an entrepreneur, also has two previous convictions and a caution.

The first dates back to 2016 and was over an assault on a PC and drunk and disorderly behaviour.

In 2018, she was made the subject of an indefinite restraining order after launching a four-month campaign of harassment against her former partner.

Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard Fedotova mocked up a fake newspaper article falsely accusing her boyfriend of being a pervert and bombarded him with ‘sexually suggestive’ texts.

She also received a caution in 2013 for criminal damage.

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