A stripper who starred in a hit TV series about lap dancing clubs has spoken of her relief after being cleared of assault.
Kirsty Brown, who appeared in Channel 4’s Strippers under the alias Lily, was on trial this week accused of “bottling” a fellow dancer just days before the show aired.
Prosecutors claimed the 22-year-old caused permanent disfigurement to Rebecca Law – a.k.a fellow dancer “Amber” – while the pair argued in their underwear in the middle of a strip club.
Miss Brown, who denied “clubbing” her pole dancing colleague on the face with bottle of blue WKD, was acquitted of the alleged assault yesterday after a two-day trial at Aberdeen Sheriff Court.
The jury of nine women and six men took under an hour to come back with a not proven by majority verdict.
Speaking after leaving the court yesterday, Miss Brown told of her relief at the verdict – more than 12 months after the allegations were first raised.
She said: “I’m just really, really pleased. This has been going on for over a year now.
“I would never do that to a person, so I’m really happy with the result.
“I’m going to put it behind me and try to live happily ever after.”
During the trial, the court heard the pair ended up arguing in the middle of the Private Eyes club in Aberdeen’s Bridge Street on March 9 – just two days before the Aberdeen-based episode of the TV show aired.
Giving evidence on the first day of the trial Miss Law, 24, said that she had fallen out with Brown in the lead up to the night in question.
The court heard that the row had been over Miss Brown’s boyfriend at the time.
Miss Law – who did not feature in the TV show – said that the pair had both been drinking alcohol at work while dancing and chatting with customers.
Around 2:30am Miss Brown approached Miss Law, who was standing alone at the bar, and brought the row up again.
Miss Law said: “It got quite heated between the both of us.
“She had a blue WKD bottle when we were arguing.
“In the middle of the argument she raised it and it sort of hit me in the face.
“The bottle did smash on my face. I had glass in my eye and blue WKD and blood down my face.”
Miss Law claimed she had to go to hospital twice in the days after the incident.
And she told the court she had to get a cut above her eye glued together – despite medical records shown to the jury indicating that nurses at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary had not carried out any treatment.
Miss Law denied the defence’s suggestion that she was jealous of the attention her colleague had been receiving over the TV show and wanted to “get rid of her” competition by staging the assault.
Miss Brown, of Aberdeen, claimed she only threw the alcohol over Miss Law.
And she claimed Miss Law injured herself afterwards in order to get her fired – as punters flocked to pay up to 240 pounds an hour for a private dance with the blonde who featured in the documentary.
She told the police in an interview: “She wanted me to get fired because of this telly that is going to get aired.
“I had a bottle of blue WKD in my hand so I threw it at her so the juice went all over her.
“I then heard Amber screaming – really drunk – saying Lily look what you have done.
“I never touched her. It’s a joke.”
Miss Brown no longer works at Private Eyes. She described herself as “between jobs”.