A woman has been fined for “lunging” across the bonnet of a car to wipe cocaine from a CD case police had confiscated from her.
Claire Simpson, from Bridge of Don, was stopped by police at 12.45am on Saturday, June 25.
The officers had been on a routine patrol around Oldmill Road when they had cause to speak to the 34-year-old.
When constables Keith Morrison and Donald Lyon approached her vehicle they noticed that Simpson, who was sitting in the driver’s seat, had “a line of white powder on a CD case”.
Fiscal Lucy Simpson yesterday told Aberdeen Sheriff Court that Simpson “immediately” dropped the plastic case onto the floor of her car.
The fiscal added: “The constables then retrieved the case, which still had white powder on it.
“But at that point another person in the car attempted to escape and, as the officers were dealing with that, the accused lunged towards the bonnet of the vehicle and wiped the powder from the case.
“Simspon was later searched and found to be in possession of 0.4grammes of cocaine, worth £25.”
The accused admitted obstructing the officers in the exercise of their powers, by “wiping a quantity of white powder from a CD case which had been seized from her vehicle”.
The mother-of-four, of of Broadfold Drive, pleaded guilty to a further charge of cocaine possession.
Representing herself from the dock, the first-time offender said only that she had been “in the wrong place at the wrong time”.
Sheriff Christine McCrossan fined Simpson a total of £175, accepting that she “had never been in trouble before”.
