A WOMAN has been put in jail for threatening to kill nurses at a mental hospital.

The 29-year-old, of no fixed abode, is serving a 4 year prison sentence after the incidents on June 9 at the secure hospital for women with mental illness in Gatehouse Lane.

She at first denied charges of making repeated threats to kill & destroy property.

The court heard nurses were in real fear they would be acted upon.

She was handed a 2 year & 2 month sentence for the first charge & a concurrent 8 week term for the second.

Magistrates ordered her to serve extra time because she breached the terms of 2 suspended sentences by committing the crimes.

She was given a 2 month suspended sentence for assault by beating in London in Nov. & another of 4 months for arson in Bronsfield prison.