A Dundee woman has been given six months to knit her way out of a prison sentence.
The bizarre challenge was laid down to Angela McCabe after she pleaded guilty to a vicious road rage attack.
The 47-year-old admitted boxing in her victim’s car, hauling open her drivers’ side door and punching her in the face following an argument over her driving.
McCabe, however, denied tailing her victim for several miles through the city’s streets, claiming that the pursuit had been a coincidence and that she was simply a “keen knitter” who happened to have been driving to a specialist wool shop near to where the assault took place.
Leaping on that claim, Sheriff John Rafferty told her she must return to Dundee Sheriff Court in December having knitted numerous items capable of being sold in charity shops to raise money for good causes.
He said her ability and willingness to do so could be the difference between prison and a sentence of community service.
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