A bride has admitted ruining her wedding day by attacking a female guest at the wedding reception.
Jealous Audrey Stevenson admitted grabbing her friend Veronica Bannon by the hair and pushing her, causing her to strike her head off a door.
Its understood Stevenson had been angered by the attention Miss Bannon appeared to be paying to her new husband Scott Allan.
Depute fiscal Katrine Craig today/yesterday produced photographs showing Miss Bannons badly bruised and bloody face following the attack.
Stevenson, 46, had sentence deferred for background reports and her husband Allan, 55, walked free after the prosecution accepted his not guilty plea.
At an earlier hearing it was revealed that police arrested both Stevenson and her new husband at the wedding reception.
The pair spent their wedding night in separate cells and appeared shamefaced from custody the following Monday, having missed the flight they were supposed to catch to honeymoon in Mexico.
They denied the charges at their first court appearance and had a date set for trial, but were initially banned from staying overnight together at the home they shared in Foreshore Way, Boness, West Lothian.
Sheriff Martin Edington told the couples lawyers at the time that he was not willing to allow them to return to the same house in case recriminations broke out.
He remarked: This was arguably the ruination of one of the biggest days of their lives and youre telling me no-ones going to harbour any ill feeling.
Im not saying they shouldnt be able to contact each other but not at the same address.
Allans lawyer Sonia Cheema said her client had expressed extreme shame for having found himself in the situation he was in.
The special bail conditions barring Stevenson and Allan from sleeping in the same house were lifted a few days later after the court was told there had been no reports of any domestic abuse.
Stevenson had originally denied assaulting Miss Bannon at the Friday evening wedding reception at the Star and Garter Hotel in Linlithgow on 28 July last year.
But when the case called for trial at Livingston Sheriff Court yesterday/Thursday she changed her plea to guilty at the last minute.
She and Allan had also been accused of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner likely to cause fear or alarm by struggling and fighting with each other at the reception.
However, after discussions with their lawyers, the Crown accepted their denials of that charge and of a further allegation that Stevenson had breached her bail conditions by contacting the victim.
Darryl Lovie, defending the bride, said there had been particular circumstances surrounding the offence.
He said: It was in a public house, in fact it was a wedding reception - my clients wedding reception.
He suggested that the sheriff should hear the details of what happened and deal with his client by admonishing her or imposing a fine and a compensation order.
However, after being shown the victims injuries Sheriff Susan Craig expressed concern that the assault had taken place in a public place.
She said: For an assault in a pub to cause that amount of bruising, the court is not going to be inclined to deal with the matter simply by way of a financial penalty.
Im going to order that a criminal justice social work report be obtained so the court has a full range of sentencing options open to it.
Stevenson will return to court for sentencing on 10 May.
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أفسدت عروس ليلة زفافها، بعد أن هاجمت صديقتها، اعتقادا منها أنها تحاول لفت نظر زوجها، فجذبتها من شعرها، ودفعت بها إلى الباب، حيث اصطدم رأسها، وأصيبت بكدمات في الوجه.
ألقت الشرطة القبض على أودري ستيفنسون، 46عامًا، وزوجها الجديد، 55 عاما، في حفل الزفاف، وأمضيا ليلة زفافهما في زنزانتين منفصلتين، ولم يتمكنا من اللحاق برحلة شهر العسل، في المكسيك، كما قررا من قبل.
واجه الزوجان تهمة العنف، والتهديد، والتعاون على التصرف بطريقة مسيئة، ونتيجة الإصابات التي لحقت بالضحية، رأت المحكمة أن توقيع العقوبة المالية لا يكفي، وأن يتم عمل تقرير اجتماعي حول الحالة الجنائية، حتى يكون أمام المحكمة خيارات مفتوحة لإصدار الحكم المناسب.
