Baby shower row leaves mum with bald patch after ‘bingo' game turns sour
A niece of darts legend and former world champion Jocky Wilson pulled the hair of a woman allegedly leaving her with a bald patch as a baby shower party turned into a scrap.
Sarah Wilson, 45, appeared for sentence after feuding families turned the pre-birth celebrations into chaos and she has been ordered to pay £500 compensation. The party last May at Lochore Miners Welfare Institute in Lochore, Fife, took place before Sarah Wilson's daughter Chantelle gave birth. During a trial last month, Wilson from Kirkcaldy admitted assaulting Pamela Ritchie by seizing her by the hair.
Her other daughter Chardonnay, 20, was found guilty of assaulting a 61-year-old gran by attempting to remove a feeding tube. The trial heard there was growing hostility between the two families in the run up to the get-together.
Light-hearted games such as 'Baby Bingo' were ruined by offensive comments fired back and forward across the hall and the bad feeling escalated to violence outside the hall, reported the Daily Record.
There were the claims about abusive comments aimed at the Wilsons being written on a paper plate. In an earlier game one guest suggested Chantelle would rather open a bottle of wine than a bottle for the baby.
Sarah Wilson's solicitor Stephen Morrison said yesterday: 'This was a baby shower celebration that turned sour for one reason or another. She absolutely regrets the incident and she hadn't been drinking that day.
"She continues to have a relationship with her daughter's partner but not with the rest of his family. There's no reason to believe there will be a repetition of this behaviour as she's not likely to put herself into another family situation like this.'
The solicitor said his client suffered from physical and mental health issues, receives over £2,000 a month in benefits and was unfit to do unpaid work.
He said Sarah Wilson had two previous convictions for similar offences and one of these in particular was 'not insignificant'. Sheriff Susan Duff commented: "Mrs Ritchie's evidence was that she was left with a bald section on her head as a chunk of hair had been pulled out."
The sheriff ordered £500 compensation to be paid to the victim and added she was unimpressed by Wilson's reaction in the dock.
She told Wilson's lawyer she would have to return to court in November make sure the money had been paid, adding: 'Your client's face said an awful lot about what she thought of the sentence.'
Although found guilty, Sheriff Duff had previously granted Chardonnay Wilson an absolute discharge as a conviction on her record would have ended her career as a carer for the elderly.
Jocky Wilson, from Kirkcaldy, was world champion in 1982 and 1989 and one of the biggest stars of the games. He retired to Kirkcaldy in 1995 and died at the age of 62 in 2012.
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