A drunken British woman currently languishing in a Thai prison cell after allegedly trying to have sex on a hotel glass table before fighting with police officers has been named as a 42-year-old mother from Devon, MailOnline can reveal.

Mother-of-one Jude Hill, from Plymouth, who left the UK for Thailand a few months ago, is said to have straddled her partner in the lobby before the piece of furniture shattered into pieces in Pattaya, Thailand, at 3am on Christmas morning.

She allegedly ran away with the porter in pursuit before grappling with an armed officer in front of the beach. Bystanders eventually helped to subdue her.

Her council house recently burnt down and she had to leave. I think shortly after that [she and her son] went off to Thailand.

'But the truth is she was not very well liked round here.'

MailOnline understands Ms Hill arrived in Thailand with her teenage son a few months ago after her home caught fire when a car parked in the driveway was set alight.

Accelerant was deliberately poured over an Audi Q2, before bursting into flames as it sat in the driveway of the residence in Elburton, Plymouth, on 23 September.

The flames spread to the house, causing substantial smoke and fire damage, according to Devon and Cornwall Police, which is treating the incident as arson.

Ms Hill and the other occupants in the house at the time evacuated without injury.

Her departure to Thailand also comes just three years after Ms Hill suffered heartbreak when her brother was horrifically murdered during an arranged fight.

Callum Hill, 22, died after a 'brutal' attack by two men on Kit Hill, a remote part of Cornwall, in March 2020.

He suffered fatal injuries after being severely beaten by the men, who turned up to the pre-arranged rendezvous with an assortment of weapons.

Andrew Hatrey, 38, of Callington and Kristian Humphries, 31,of Gunnislake denied murder, but were found guilty and sentenced to life.

Hatrey was told he would serve a minimum of 26 years, while Humphries would serve 15 years.

A third man, Alexander 'Billy' Humphries - who is not related to Kristian Humphries - was handed an 11-year jail term for causing grevious bodily harm with intent after he used his car as a weapon to ram the two killers.

As Ms Hill spends her second night in a Thai prison, footage of the incident continues to spread on social media.

Showing the precise moment of her arrest, the beleagured mother-of-one says in the video: 'What are you doing, oi, somebody English' before branding the officer a 'f****** f** s****** c***'.

As more officers arrive to detain her, she says: 'Record me, England, I'm from England, mister, hey, mister please, keep recording everything, stupid little fat f***** pudgy c***'.

Arriving at the station, an officer is then heard saying 'shut your mouth' while leading her into a holding cell to sober up.