A WOMAN has been charged with a string of crimes including racially aggravated harassment.

Francesca Reardon, 18, of York Road, Southend, is due to appear at Southend Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday March 11 charged with theft, common assault, assault by beating, racially aggravated harassment, assault by beating of an emergency worker and possession of cocaine and heroin.

Police officers from the Southend Town Centre Team attended Primark in Victoria Shopping Centre at around 10.10am on Tuesday August 13, 2018.

They arrested a woman after receiving reports that a Southend BID Street Ranger was threatened and a security guard was racially abused.