A mum-of-three who had swine flu went round a doctor's waiting room spitting after threatening to infect everyone there with the virus.

Honor Donnelly, 55, became angry with staff at the Park Medical Centre in Wythenshawe when she struggled to get hold of the anti-viral drug Tamiflu.

After an angry phone call she stormed into the centre and spat at the screen separating her and receptionist Lisa Turner.

She then began spitting around the waiting room, the court was told. Donnelly was arrested and found guilty of a public order offence by magistrates in Manchester. And an appeal against the conviction at Manchester Crown Court was dismissed on Friday.

The court was told Donnelly made three calls to the centre, during which she called receptionist Miss Turner 'a donkey'. When police arrived, officers asked her for her name but her only reply was to spell out the word donkey.

After she was arrested Donnelly, of Rawpool Gardens, Wythenshawe, became abusive to police.

The court heard she was diagnosed with swine flu last October. She was told to pick up her Tamiflu from a clinic in Gorton, but she was unable to collect the drugs, so she called Park Medical Centre for help.

Miss Turner told the court that Donnelly had sworn at her. Donnelly denied swearing and said she had called to ask if the surgery would fax the clinic in Gorton to ask if it could deliver the Tamiflu to her home.

Donnelly also denied spitting at the reception screen but the police officer who arrested her told the court he had seen it.

Judge Martin Rudland dismissed her appeal and ordered her to pay £365 in fines and court costs.