A woman filmed unleashing a racist abuse at passengers on a New Addington bound tram has been ordered to carry out community service.

Emma West of New Addington, was secretly filmed by a fellow passenger on a mobile phone and the clip, entitled My Tram Experience, was posted on the video sharing website YouTube in November 2011.

More than 2.2m people viewed the clip in the first 24 hours of it being posted online and 88,000 members of the public commented on the footage.

This afternoon she was bound over to keep the peace and be of good behaviour for 12 months and to not engage in offensive or disorderly behaviour on public transport, or face paying a £100 fine in relation to the tram rant.

Appearing at Croydon Crown Court today, West was also sentenced for assaulting her partner Ricky Metson with an ornamental knife and assaulting a police officer - for which she was given a community order for 24 months with two requirements.

One is a supervision requirement for that period under probation and the other is a mental health treatment requirement under her current consultant psychiatrist.

Last month West finally admitted the racist rant, more than a year-and-a-half after the racist rant, and after a string of adjournments where her lawyers claimed her mental health problems meant she was not fit to stand trial.

The mum-of-two pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of a racially aggravated section 5 public order offence – using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour that is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.

The Croydon Guardian revealed West had snapped during a conversation about her brother and attacked her partner of 12 years after enjoying a family day out.

During sentencing, Judge Warwick McKinnon said West had been a perfectly normal young woman who when in good health held down a job for 10 years, but events took a turn for the worse.