A Thanet mum-of-five – who once got so drunk she was arrested on a holiday flight – has now been jailed for having sex in a Ramsgate park... in front of a child.

Maxine Cocks, 42, avoided going to prison for the air-rage incident despite making homophobic and racist remarks to the air crew.

But now a judge has heard how she was spotted high on drugs, half-naked and shocking passers-by with her sex shenanigans near a three-year-old child.

Eye-witnesses called her "sick" before phoning the police, who then arrested her for outraging public decency.

Earlier that morning workmen became concerned about a hatchback which had been parked near a roundabout with a punctured tyre in Margate Road, Herne Bay.

They were so worried the car posed a danger to motorists, they went to help - only to find Cocks fast asleep, where she claimed to have been for five hours.

Prosecutor Simon Taylor told Canterbury Crown Court how police were alerted and Cocks and her lover were taken to a nearby Harvester Restaurant to freshen up.

But while they were there, an employee had her bag and contents stolen and Cocks was later discovered with the victim's driving licence.

She and her lover then got on a train to Ramsgate where she was then seen in a park, intoxicated, having an argument with him.

"Cocks was then seen taking off her top by a member of public, exposing her breasts.

"The member of the public also saw her fall over a couple of times and then have sex with her partner in full view of the public, including a three-year-old child.

"Passers-by were also heard shouting that the couple were sick," he added.

The court heard that Cocks, of Buxton Road, Ramsgate has been convicted 10 times in the past – including the air-rage incident.

John Barker, defending, said she was "overcome by her drug addiction" and had lost control.

"The inescapable fact is class A drugs ruin lives. On that day you clearly lost all sense of proportion, propriety and logic" - Judge Simon James

Judge Simon James jailed her for a year after she admitted outraging public decency, handling stolen property and another offence.

He told her: "The inescapable fact is class A drugs ruin lives. On that day you clearly lost all sense of proportion, propriety and logic.

"Your conduct was such that members of the public were quite rightly shocked, not simply because you were having sexual intercourse in public but doing so oblivious a child was there."

In 2010, passengers on board a Thomas Cook flight from Turkey cheered as Cocks was arrested.

She had drunk the strong Turkish spirit raki before boarding a plane from Antalya to Gatwick.

A court later heard how a short while into the flight, she shouted homophobic abuse at a flight attendant before making a racist remark about a Turkish steward.

She was given a 12-month suspended sentence for using threatening, abusive or insulting words or disorderly behaviour to cause harassment, alarm or distress on a flight.