A drunken woman who twice urinated on a public war memorial in broad daylight has been jailed for seven months.

Kelly Martin, 42, outraged public decency when she desecrated the monument in Grays, Essex, first in April when there were still Remembrance poppy wreaths on it.

She did so a second time while on bail in June, the day before the 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Somme.

Martin swore and shouted as she was led down to the cells at Basildon Crown Court on Tuesday.

In mitigation, the court heard that Martin had spent seven weeks in prison on remand and was now "clean".

Ken Campbell, who served nine years with the Royal Engineers and runs the Veterans Radio Net internet radio station, was in court to hear Martin's sentencing.