A woman lifted her clothes, flashed her naked body at police officers, and said “look at this” after a day’s binge drinking to celebrate lockdown easing.
Officers turned up after a dropped 999 call and found both Asha Charnock and her husband David Charnock with visible injuries.
He told a trial they had been sustained during “kinky” sex.
He said: “Me and Asha liked to do kinky things in the bedroom, so I assume that is where they have come from,” he told Dundee Sheriff Court.
He had a bite mark on his arm and a fresh bleeding scratch to his face, while his partner of 15 years had a badly swollen eye.
Mr Charnock said: “As I said, like before, it would have come from stuff with me and Asha messing around in the bedroom.
“She wouldn’t attack me – she’s only five foot and I’m a big lad.”
Threw brick through own window
Mrs Charnock – on trial on a series of charges – said she had come home and thrown a brick through her living room window to wake up her husband as she could not get in.
She said: “He was locking me out during the pandemic.
“After I threw the brick through the window he opened the door and punched me in the head.
“He tried to strangle me and that’s when I bit him.
“I was already thinking about leaving. I had packed most of my stuff.
“With the incident with me exposing myself I was just going to get my clothes.”
Flashed at police
PC Andrew Barrie confirmed the living room window was smashed and a brick was tangled up in the blinds.
“He said she scratched him to the face and grabbed him by the throat.
“He had a scratch on his face. She wasn’t in bed.
“She was up and about, stamping her feet.
“She was drunk and argumentative, shouting.
“She told us she smashed the window. She exposed herself to us in the bedroom.
“She took her dressing gown off and lifted up her vest and said ‘look at this.’
“She had no underwear on.
“It was high enough that I could see the whole bottom half of her body.”
Police tried to stop accused leaving
PC Rebecca Hirst said: “He (Mr Charnock) said he had to push her off in self-defence.
“She was very erratic, shouting and screaming and not really answering our questions.
“She just kept telling us that if we didn’t leave, she would.
“She said she wanted to pack her stuff and leave the country.
“I think she had a suitcase packed.”
PC Hirst added: “PC Barrie was in the doorway trying to stop her as she tried to leave. She only had a long vest on.
“She stood in front of him, lifted it up and said ‘look at this,’ exposing her vagina.
“It was up – ‘look at this’ – and then down.”
Sheriff ‘not unsympathetic’ to accused
Sheriff Gregor Murray cleared Mrs Charnock, 38, now of Southgate, London, of attacking her husband at their former home in Dundee on 14 July last year.
He found her guilty of vandalism by throwing a stone through the window at Lauderdale Avenue and breaching the peace by shouting and swearing at police.
He also found her guilty of public indecency but said: “I find her guilty but I am not unsympathetic.
“I had no reason to disbelieve her evidence.
“While I don’t condone what you did, it has to be seen against a wider context of a tempestuous relationship between you and Mr Charnock.
“This was most probably after you had been seriously assaulted by your husband.
“It is unlikely you are going to do anything else again.”
He admonished Charnock and allowed her to walk free from court without further punishment.
