Woman’s first night out after birth ended with brawl on pub floor – and two years’ probation
Mum sank her teeth in barman’s leg and refused to let go
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An Invergordon woman’s first night out after having her third baby ended with her biting the leg of a pub barman and refusing to let go, a court heard yesterday.
Just two months later, Catherine Mahon bit a female police officer on the finger in a similar incident.
Mahon was put on pro- bation for two years at Dingwall Sheriff Court and ordered to do 240 hours of unpaid work – the maximum amount – after she admitted the assaults.
Mahon, 33, of 62 Caberfeidh Drive, and her partner were at the town’s Picture House bar on June 8 this year, which was their first time out together since the birth of their baby 10 months earlier.
Fiscal Stella Swan said Mahon was asked to leave the premises at 1am, but returned, and a struggle broke out
Mahon, a female steward and a male member of staff ended up on the ground, and Mahon spat in a second male steward’s face.
Ms Swan said Mahon then bit the barman, Jonathan Ross, on the thigh, and refused to let go.
She added: “Police were contacted, and they found Mahon lying on the ground being restrained by members of staff and still biting the man.”
On August 31, in Dingwall’s Tulloch Street, Mahon shouted religiously aggravated obscenities at three girls and, when told she was under arrest, she struggled with police.
Ms Swan said: “When she was on the ground she bit the female officer on the finger repeatedly and refused to let go. She had to be forcibly removed.”
Ms Swan added that the officer had puncture wounds and had to have a anti-tetanus shot.
Her bad behaviour con- tinued at Dingwall police station, where she managed to get one hand out of the handcuffs and began banging on the cell wall and door.
When Constable Sheila Ross opened the door hatch to remove the other cuff, Mahon spat in her face.
Solicitor Alison Foggo said that first offender Mahon returned to the pub on June 8 to get her handbag, and was upset when stewards took hold of her.
On the second occasion, Ms Foggo said Mahon had been watching an Old Firm match and was upset by comments about her Celtic shirt from Rangers fans.
Mahon admitted a list of charges, including breach of the peace and assault on June 8 and on August 31; two breaches of the peace with religious aggravation; resisting arrest; assaulting two police officers and damaging property.
Sheriff Gordon Fleetwood said: “I am in no doubt that I could impose custody on you and I wouldn’t be criticised in the slightest.
“However, I am prepared to use an alternative to custody, namely probation and unpaid work.”
