Former Commonwealth boxing champion Lee McAllister has been cleared of assaulting a woman – after being accused of pulling her hair.
The Aberdeen Assassin went on trial at the city’s sheriff court yesterday accused of attacking Ashlea Miller on August 29 in Prohibition on Langstane Place.
But Miss Miller told the court that the alleged incident, which was captured on CCTV cameras, was just “a bit of banter”.
She said the pair were just “messing around” and stressed that she had fallen to the ground after tripping up on her shoes.
Depute fiscal Kirsty Lyons asked: “What happened once you got to Prohibition?”
Miss Miller replied: “Me and Lee were having banter as usual and then I fell over on the dance floor.”
The court was shown CCTV footage of Ms Miller falling onto the floor of the city centre pub.
Ms Lyons told the court that the Crown would no longer be seeking to prosecute 33-year-old McAllister and he was cleared of the charge.
The father-of-two is currently serving a nine month jail sentence after he admitted drunkenly lashing out at Jonathan Hay in a city centre kebab shop last summer.
The former world champion punched Mr Hay so hard he left his face numb with significant nerve damage from the fracture.
Sentencing the repeat offender last year Sheriff Graham Buchanan said McAllister “should have known” his actions could leave someone seriously injured.
The sheriff said: “If he punched someone in the face, given his career as a boxer, he must know the consequences of that.
“It is beyond the pale that a boxer would behave like this outside the ring.”
The court heard McAllister, of Granitehill Terrace, Aberdeen, had been extremely drunk when he carried out the attack, and that he had turned to alcohol shortly before the incident to help him cope with the death of his mother.
In December McAllister received an antisocial behaviour order (Asbo), banning him from the city centre and its licensed premises, indefinitely.
The order, which will be in force between 7pm and 7am, also instructs him not to act in a threatening or abusive manner towards residents.