A 21-YEAR-OLD Porthmadog woman with a string of previous convictions has been handed a suspended jail term by magistrates after admitting racially aggravated provocation of violence.

Chloe Roberts, of 112 High Street, appeared for sentencing at Caernarfon Magistrates’ Court on 9 January.

Roberts, 21, had indicated a plea of guilty at a hearing before Christmas to racially aggravated provocation of violence by words in Porthmadog on 9 September last year.

Magistrates ruled that the offence was so serious that “only a custodial sentence can be justified” due to Roberts’ “previous record of offending”.

She was sentenced to 12 weeks in jail, with the term suspended for 18 months because there was a “reasonable prospect of rehabilitation”.