Mum attacked police believing they were impostors who’d come to kill her

Ashleigh Marsh said she suffered a mental health breakdown that led to delusions (Picture: Cavendish Press)

A woman who attacked a police officer has walked free after a court heard she was in the grip of a mental health ‘crisis’ and believed she was about to be kidnapped and murdered.

Police were called to 26-year-old mum-of-two Ashleigh Marsh’s address in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, last month after receiving calls about someone ‘screaming and shouting in the street’.

The court...