A policeman’s partner has admitted lashing out at cops due to the stress of him going on trial accused of rape.
Elaine Duncan’s other half Andrew Robertson was cleared earlier this year of sexually assaulting a woman that he claimed had seduced him with a provocative strip tease.
Robertson denied the rape charge and insisted that the only thing he had done wrong was to have consensual sex with the woman behind Duncan’s back in 2012.
Duncan, 49, stood by her man and gave evidence at the High Court trial in Aberdeen earlier this year.
The jury found the case against Robertson not proven by a majority verdict.
But it emerged yesterday that before the case reached the court, the stress of the situation was getting to Duncan.
On October 26 last year, police attended the couple’s home in Aboyne following reports of an “incident”.
When officers arrived, they found Duncan under the influence of alcohol and she was taken to Kittybrewster Custody Centre in Aberdeen, where she struck out at officers who were trying to help her.
Duncan appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court yesterday, where she admitted kicking two police constables and stopping them carrying out their duties.
Fiscal depute Cheryl Clark said: “She was conveyed to the police station where she was given medical advice.
“There was concern for her wellbeing and they had to try and remove her clothing and provide her with police issue clothing.
“She then struggled, acting in the manner libelled. She said afterwards ‘if they had just left me, I would have been fine.'”
Duncan’s defence agent Charles Benzies said yesterday that his client wanted to “apologise profusely” to the police.
The solicitor said: “She had been struggling with the stress from a highly publicised high court case.
“She took solace in alcohol. That was a bad decision.”
Sheriff William Taylor imposed a community payback order with 40 hours of unpaid work to be carried out in the next six months.