The widow of a man who was allegedly murdered has been found guilty of assaulting a woman on her doorstep in a row over an electronic cigarette.
Sharon Clampett, 38, was called out of her Crimond home on July 9 this year after one of her relatives fell out with a friend.
Her pal Rena Sutherland had slapped one of his friends and shoved him out of her top-floor flat after he was allegedly egging him on to obtain weapons.
In court yesterday, Clampett told Sheriff Annella Cowan that her partner, who had died a month before the incident, had bought her relative the electronic cigarette three weeks before his death and that it was mistakenly left behind in the home of Rosehearty woman Lesley-Ann Walker during that evening.
In an attempt to get it back, the court heard Clampett got into a doorstep argument with her.
And instead of retrieving the device she punched Miss Walker repeatedly on the head.
Gary Clampett was pronounced dead following an alleged disturbance a month earlier in Fraserburgh.
His widow and 40-year-old Sutherland were both found guilty of assault following a trial at Peterhead Sheriff Court yesterday.
The two women had both denied the charges against them ahead of yesterday’s trial and said that they had both instead been attacked.
During her evidence, Clampett, of Logie Avenue West, said she was attacked by Miss Walker when she answered the door.
She said her son had been “upset”.
She said: “He had fallen out with his best friend and was upset.
“I didn’t think there would be trouble.”
Meanwhile, Sutherland, 40, claimed she was assaulted outside her own home by Walker’s 18-year-old daughter, Megan.
Sheriff Cowan said she was satisfied that both women were guilty of assault.
She said: “I’ve heard a lot of evidence which has sought to bring all sorts of background and emotion to this trial.
“I find each of you guilty.”
Sentencing on the pair has been deferred to January 29 which Sheriff Cowan said was an effort to “keep a lid on them” over the festive period.