An Aberdeen nursery worker was sacked by her employer after it came to light she had attacked three police officers on a drunken night out.
Kara Luty, 27, hit, kicked and bit the officers during a scuffle in Aberdeen city centre.
A tearful Luty appeared in the dock at Aberdeen Sheriff Court and admitted attacking the trio – an incident which was described as “out of character”.
Her solicitor said his client was suspended and then terminated by her employer as a result of the case.
Accused shouted and pointed at police
Fiscal depute Lydia Ross told the court that at around 3.10am on June 5 last year police were on Windmill Brae dealing with a large gathering of people when Luty emerged from the group “shouting and pointing her finger” at the officers.
“She was instructed to vacate the area, whereby she struck the constable to the body with her open right palm,” Mr Ross said.
Luty, a nursery support worker at the time, then struggled with another officer as he tried to arrest her and kicked him in the leg.
Police went to place her in handcuffs and at this point, Luty bit another constable on the shoulder.
One officer was left with bruising, while a second officer had a bite mark.
Luty pleaded guilty to three counts of assault.
‘She is deeply apologetic to the officers’
Defence agent Gregor Kelly told the court that his client had never been in any kind of trouble before and had come out of the Covid-19 lockdown in a “fragile mental state”.
“She has little memory of what happened that evening,” he said.
“Ms Luty had been drinking and she did drink heavily on her medication.
“She felt the police were being a little heavy-handed, but she is deeply apologetic to the officers who were just doing their job.”
Mr Kelly also told the court that Luty had been suspended by her employer following the incident and terminated earlier this week.
Sheriff Edward Gilroy told Luty: “I think I’m on safe ground to say that your behaviour was out of character as you have been in no trouble since.
“You’ve lost your employment over this incident and that’s more of a punishment than anything I can give you.”
Sheriff Gilroy made Luty, of Cairncry Road, Aberdeen, subject to a community payback order with 50 hours of unpaid work.
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