BABY SHOWER BUST-UP: FAMILIES GET-TOGETHER ENDS IN VIOLENCE

A BABY SHOWER attended by feuding families ended in violence with a mum being punched and a gran having her essential feeding tube dislodged.

There was hostility between the relatives of the couple having the baby throughout what should have been a fun family get-together.

Light-hearted games such as ‘Baby Bingo’ were interrupted by offensive comments fired back and forward across the hall.

The bad feeling between the families escalated to violence outside the hall in Lochore.

The mother and sister of the mum-to-be landed themselves in the dock for assaults on members of the other family.

Sarah and Chardonnay Wilson (pictured) went on trial at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.

Mum Sarah Wilson punched the other mum after grabbing her hair and 20-year-old Chardonnay Wilson assaulted the 61-year-old gran of the dad-to-be, dislodging her nasogastric feeding tube.

During the trial, Sarah Wilson, 45, of Hendry Road, Kirkcaldy, submitted a guilty plea to one of the charges she faced.

She admitted that on 18th May last year at Lochore Miners’ Welfare Institute, Lochleven Road, Lochore, she assaulted a woman by seizing her by the hair and repeatedly punching her on the body.

Chardonnay Wilson, of Hendry Crescent, Kirkcaldy, was found guilty of a charge that she assaulted another woman by attempting to seize her essential feeding tube.

The charge had also alleged that Wilson repeatedly punched her on the body but this was deleted by the sheriff.

Chardonnay Wilson told the court the event had started at 1pm and was a baby shower for her sister Chantelle, ahead of the birth of her daughter, which occurred a fortnight later.

She said the two families were sitting at different tables and “at first it was fine”.

However, bad feeling began to escalate after a game called ‘Would Mummy Rather’.

She explained that there was a question, “would mummy rather put a bottle on for the baby or open a bottle of wine”.

She said someone from the dad-to-be’s family shouted out that the new mum would open a bottle of wine.

“Chantelle got upset and everything started to escalate from there,” she said.

She described how her mum Sarah and the other mother were “arguing back and forward”.

“My mum told her they could speak any other day but not to spoil the occasion,” she added.

The court was told there was more arguing during a game of ‘Baby Bingo’ and allegations about sexual comments being heard.

There were then claims about an abusive comment ‘F****** fools”, aimed at the Wilsons, being written on a paper plate.

Wilson said she had also written a good wishes message in the baby book and someone had ripped it out.

Gino Gambale, solicitor for Chardonnay Wilson, asked for his client to be given an absolute discharge, as a conviction would end her career as a carer.

He said Wilson had worked as a carer for the elderly and vulnerable for the past three years, starting at the age of 18.

The solicitor went on, “This was the baby shower for her sister and as we’ve heard tensions heightened throughout the day.

“The families were not getting on and this has spilled outside.

“This was a serious assault but something that happened very quickly.”

Sheriff Susan Duff said it would “not be proportionate” to impose a sentence which would end a young person’s career in this case.

Therefore, she agreed to the defence request for an absolute discharge which means the offence will not go on Wilson’s record.

Sarah Wilson will be sentenced on 4th June after the sheriff called for reports.