A young shop worker has been fined and ordered to pay compensation to her victim after she carried out a “disgraceful” attack on a taxi driver who was taking her home from a night out.
Lorna Biggs punched, bit and kicked out at Colin Godfrey after he asked her to get out his car when she told him she couldn’t afford to pay.
Mr Godfrey was thrown to the ground and was left with bite marks on his ankles as a result of the sustained attack carried out on April 11 this year.
Yesterday Biggs appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court to be sentenced having previously admitted committing the assault on the city’s Holburn Street.
Fiscal depute Felicity Merson said Mr Godfrey had picked up the 26-year-old at around 3.45am on Union Street.
She said that after Biggs got into the taxi she told him she had no money and would have to stop at a bank on the way to Kincorth.
The court heard Mr Godfrey agreed and took her to a cash machine on Holburn Street, however when she returned she told the driver she had no money to pay him.
When Mr Godfrey said he was not prepared to drive her any further unless she could pay, she refused to get out of the car and started to “kick off”.
Mrs Merson said Biggs threw a punch at Mr Godfrey’s face, forcing him to the ground where she repeatedly attempted to kick him and at one point stopped to bite his ankle.
The court heard that as a result of the commotion nearby residents came down from their homes to see what was going on. One woman was able to get Biggs, of 11 Kincorth Circle, to calm down and the police were called.
Biggs represented herself in court yesterday and apologised for her behaviour, saying it was “extremely out of character for her”.
Sheriff William Taylor told her it was an “utterly disgraceful” way to behave.
Fining her £200 and ordering her to pay £200 compensation to her victim, he said: “Taxi drivers deserve to be treated as normal human beings, not in the way you treated him.”