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A BlackRock solicitor has been fined for shouting abuse at other passengers on a train.
Rebecca Lindsay, who qualified in Scotland in 2020, was travelling from Edinburgh to Glasgow last December after a Christmas party (which was not thrown by BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, it pointed out to ROF).
Having partaken in the refreshments available at the event, Lindsay took a tumble in the aisle and was helped up by another passenger.
Lindsay struck up a conversation with the man before becoming “aggressive” towards him, and when another passenger asked if he was alright, Lindsay yelled at them, “Is he your boyfriend? Have you got your d**k up his a**e, is he shagging him tonight – he is up his ass”.
Turning on a woman in the carriage, she shouted, “You are a f***ing mad f***ing dyke lesbian, you are the problem”.
Once Lindsay was sat down, she called a man who was passing in the aisle with a woman “ugly”.
Then she shouted at him, “Go away you f***ing orange ned, go away you f***ing psycho freak!” and kicked him twice for good measure.
Fiscal depute Ross Canning told the court, “The man with the woman tried to get Lindsay into her seat in an attempt to diffuse the situation. From the seated position, she kicked the man twice but there was no injury”.
The court heard how Lindsay, from Glasgow, shared her thoughts with her fellow passengers for the duration of the journey, telling one rubbernecker, “You getting a f***ing hard on for it, aye?”
Lindsay pled guilty to behaving in a threatening or abusive manner aggravated by prejudice related to sexual orientation, and to assault.
Her lawyer said she had consumed alcohol while on medication because “there was social pressure on her to drink” at the party, and that it “went to her head”.
He said his client had “no recollection” of going full ned and that “She cannot express more regret than she feels and is utterly ashamed by her conduct. She bitterly regrets her actions”.
In further mitigation, the court heard that the man she kicked had called her an “old skank”, which may explain why she was only fined £640.
Sheriff David Hall told her, “You are 35 years old with no previous convictions or outstanding matters” and that “I accept the submission that you are unlikely to be seen in court again”.
Lawyers love some train action – including mocking job applicants, bearing witness to bowel-voiding, and, most seriously, picking their noses.
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