An Aberdeenshire support worker has been fined after she spat at a bar manager’s face before attacking her.
Donna Stewart went on trial at Aberdeen Sheriff Court yesterday, accused of assaulting Linda Fyfe, who at the time was the manager of the Market Bar in Stonehaven.
Stewart, of Ninian Place, Portlethen, denied spitting at Ms Fyfe and pushing her to the ground on June 10 last year.
The then-bar manager was taken to hospital following the assault.
But a sheriff found the 38-year-old guilty, and also convicted her of acting aggressively in the bar on the same date.
However, she was cleared of assaulting another customer.
Stewart’s defence agent Peter Keene told the court his client had not spat at the bar manager, but instead attempted to give her “a peck on the cheek” before she left the bar.
But Stewart Sheriff Morag McLaughlin said that she did not find Stewart’s evidence of what happened in the pub to be “at all credible”.
The sheriff also said the CCTV footage recorded from inside the bar on the day of the incident, which was shown to the court, corroborated with the evidence given by the crown’s witnesses.
Stewart was fined a total of £1,300.
Aberdeenshire woman spat at bar manager’s face and then attacked her
