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'you're Too Drunk For A Trial' Woman Is Told - VitaminE - 08-30-2005

Magistrates were forced to bar a woman from her own trial - because she turned up too drunk to make a plea.

Julie Agnes Brophy (40) was expelled from Lincoln Magistrates' Court where she was due to stand trial for common assault.

But the bench decided to proceed with the trial and convicted Brophy in her absence.

At an earlier hearing Brophy pleaded guilty to making hoax 999 calls.

She has also pleaded guilty to 15 other charges which include handling stolen property and causing harassment.

"She is here in body but not in spirit," said Brophy's solicitor Gordon Holt.

"My assessment of the defendant is that she is hopelessly drunk and way beyond the line where I can give her any meaningful help or take any instruction."

The court heard how Brophy, of St Peter's Avenue, off Rookery Lane, Lincoln, attacked neighbour Janet McNeil in May last year.

Mrs McNeil said Brophy had come around to her house to confront her about an earlier disagreement over a boy who had been riding a motorcycle.

"I was inside my home and I heard someone say 'get out here'," Mrs McNeil said.

"Then she went past my window and she was banging on my front door."

Mrs McNeil said she went outside to see what was going on.

"The woman went mental - she was screaming in my face," she said.

Mrs McNeil said she had tried to get Brophy off her property.

"I started to go towards her and she backed off," she said.

"She then spat in my face and she started pushing me about - she knocked my glasses off my face.

"She pushed me into my car and that's when I grabbed her - I was falling back.

"She was flailing her arms about."

Due to the attack Mrs McNeil, who has now moved to Glasgow, said she suffered a twisted knee and scratches.

At an earlier hearing Brophy had denied the assault charge.

In court yesterday the record of a police interview, between Brophy and an officer, was read out.

It said Brophy admitted an incident had taken place but she claimed Mrs McNeil had instigated the attack.

In court witness John Pye (62), who also lives in St Peter's Avenue, said: "I heard this noise and there was a flailing, violent attack on Janet McNeil.

"All I could see was fists flying."

After the evidence presiding magistrate Pam Wood said the case had been proved and convicted Brophy.

A warrant was issued for Brophy's arrest and sentencing for the assault was adjourned to a later date.

After the trial Mrs McNeil said she had moved to Scotland to get away from the troubles she had faced in Lincoln.

"After being attacked by Julie Brophy I was involved in another violent incident on the same day," she said.

"I had lived in Lincoln for 25 years but I had had enough.

"The next day I got on the train to Scotland and I have not been back since.

"I don't think I will ever come back."

Sentences for all of Brophy's convictions will be given on a date to be fixed.




I had no idea PurpleHaze was from Scotland.

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