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A drunken British woman currently languishing in a Thai prison cell after allegedly trying to have sex on a hotel glass table before fighting with police officers has been named as a 42-year-old mother from Devon, MailOnline can reveal.
Mother-of-one Jude Hill, from Plymouth, who left the UK for Thailand a few months ago, is said to have straddled her partner in the lobby before the piece of furniture shattered into pieces in Pattaya, Thailand, at 3am on Christmas morning.
She allegedly ran away with the porter in pursuit before grappling with an armed officer in front of the beach. Bystanders eventually helped to subdue her.
Footage from the incident showed Ms Hill in a white mini-dress hurling vile insults at locals and swearing while being frogmarched in handcuffs to the station. Her boyfriend had quietly slipped away.
The footage appears to show Ms Hill in an intoxicated state, as one person who has known her for 10 years said ‘that’s just what she’s like’.
Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, the source, who wished to remain anonymous, said they were not shocked by her arrest.
They said: ‘That video sums everything up about her. She’s scatty, she’s nuts.
‘I last bumped into her a couple of months ago, before she went out to Thailand with her son.
Mother-of-one Jude Hill, from Plymouth, is currently languishing in a Thai prison cell after allegedly trying to have sex on a hotel glass table
A drunken British woman currently languishing in a Thai prison cell after trying to have sex on a hotel glass table before fighting with police officers has been named as 42-year-old Jude Hill from Devon, MailOnline can reveal
Footage shows the woman in a white mini-dress hurling vile insults at locals while being frogmarched in handcuffs to the station
‘Her council house recently burnt down and she had to leave. I think shortly after that [she and her son] went off to Thailand.
‘But the truth is she was not very well liked round here.’
MailOnline understands Ms Hill arrived in Thailand with her teenage son a few months ago after her home caught fire when a car parked in the driveway was set alight.
Accelerant was deliberately poured over an Audi Q2, before bursting into flames as it sat in the driveway of the residence in Elburton, Plymouth, on 23 September.
The flames spread to the house, causing substantial smoke and fire damage, according to Devon and Cornwall Police, which is treating the incident as arson.
Ms Hill and the other occupants in the house at the time evacuated without injury.
Her departure to Thailand also comes just three years after Ms Hill suffered heartbreak when her brother was horrifically murdered during an arranged fight.
Callum Hill, 22, died after a ‘brutal’ attack by two men on Kit Hill, a remote part of Cornwall, in March 2020.
MailOnline understands Ms Hill (pictured) arrived in Thailand with her teenage son a few months ago after her home caught fire when a car parked in the driveway was set alight
The blonde holidaymaker is said to have straddled her partner in the lobby before breaking the piece of furniture in Pattaya on Wednesday morning
Ms Hill (pictured) left the UK for Thailand a few months ago
Ms Hill, 42, spent Christmas Day in a Thai jail following the incident
He suffered fatal injuries after being severely beaten by the men, who turned up to the pre-arranged rendezvous with an assortment of weapons.
Andrew Hatrey, 38, of Callington and Kristian Humphries, 31,of Gunnislake denied murder, but were found guilty and sentenced to life.
Hatrey was told he would serve a minimum of 26 years, while Humphries would serve 15 years.
A third man, Alexander ‘Billy’ Humphries – who is not related to Kristian Humphries – was handed an 11-year jail term for causing grevious bodily harm with intent after he used his car as a weapon to ram the two killers.
As Ms Hill spends her second night in a Thai prison, footage of the incident continues to spread on social media.
Showing the precise moment of her arrest, the beleagured mother-of-one says in the video: ‘What are you doing, oi, somebody English’ before branding the officer a ‘f****** f** s****** c***’.
As more officers arrive to detain her, she says: ‘Record me, England, I’m from England, mister, hey, mister please, keep recording everything, stupid little fat f***** pudgy c***’.
Arriving at the station, an officer is then heard saying ‘shut your mouth’ while leading her into a holding cell to sober up.
Staff at the Flipper Lodge Hotel where the incident started said today that the woman and her partner began having sex on a sofa before one of them allegedly tried to sit on the glass table
The hotel porter, wearing a red T-shirt, is seen in the video leading her into the station, while a large shaven-headed man helping to subdue her outside was a bystander.
Speaking yesterday at 2pm local time, Police Lieutenant General Ittikorn Saikratok, who is handling the case, said: ‘The British woman is still in the cell this afternoon but she’s still very drunk.
‘She hasn’t sobered up yet. She has been making a lot of noise all night but nobody can understand what she is saying. She is yelling and incoherent.
‘She has no identification on her so we don’t know her name.
‘I told her to go to sleep. When she’s sober and can speak more clearly, a translator will come and help with the situation.
‘We advised the hotel staff to file a crime report with evidence of the damaged item and wait for the woman to sober before starting discussions about compensation.’
Staff at the Flipper Lodge Hotel where the incident started said today that Ms Hill and her partner began having sex on a sofa before one of them allegedly tried to sit on the glass table. It was knocked over and shattered.
A staff member said: ‘Both of the foreigners were not hotel customers. They were drunk and entered while we were working, and we didn’t notice them because we thought they were our customers, so we didn’t pay attention.
Staff said the woman and her boyfriend were not hotel customers
‘We will need to proceed with pressing charges because they damaged the hotel property and must take responsibility,’ staff said
‘After a while, they did something obscene. They started trying to have sex on a glass table, causing it to break along with other property.’
The staff member continued: ‘We approached them and discovered they were not hotel customers, so we ushered them out.
‘However, they refused and caused a commotion, so we took them to the police station to file a report and calm them down.
‘We will need to proceed with pressing charges because they damaged the hotel property and must take responsibility, though it’s not a huge issue.’
Pattaya on the east coast of Thailand is a two-hour drive from the main airport serving the capital Bangkok.
It is one of the country’s most popular tourist destinations alongside the capital and Phuket in the south.
It is also the most debauched – with bars and massage parlours lining most roads in the city and hundreds of thousands of young women working in the sex trade.
Thailand’s role in aiding the United States in the second Indochina War against Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia led to the region growing into a sex tourism destination for American GIs on rest and relaxation breaks.
A FCDO spokesperson said: ‘We are aware of reports of a British National detained in Thailand. We stand ready to offer assistance to British Nationals abroad 24/7.’
MailOnline has contacted Pattaya City Police for comment.