{"id":224735,"date":"2023-11-28T03:48:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T03:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allworldreport.com\/?p=224735"},"modified":"2023-11-28T03:48:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T03:48:19","slug":"guilty-oap-neighbour-in-deep-fried-feud-with-top-chippy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allworldreport.com\/world-news\/guilty-oap-neighbour-in-deep-fried-feud-with-top-chippy\/","title":{"rendered":"Guilty, OAP neighbour in deep-fried feud with top chippy"},"content":{"rendered":"
An author spent a night behind bars after hurling water at chip shop customers because she claimed they were disturbing her as they queued in a lane outside her home.<\/p>\n
Annie Harrower-Gray, 68, was arrested and detained overnight when she failed to turn up for sentence after being found guilty of breaching the peace.<\/p>\n
Sheriff George Way placed Harrower-Gray \u2013 who was led into the dock at Dundee Sheriff Court on Friday in handcuffs \u2013 under social work supervision for 12 months.<\/p>\n
He said: \u2018This has all arisen out of an unfortunate clash of personalities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She doesn\u2019t like the people in the shop and they don\u2019t like her. That\u2019s very obvious.\u2019<\/p>\n
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Annie Harrower-Gray was abusive to customers\u00a0as they waited in line outside The Wee Chippy\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The Wee Chippy is a popular fish and chip shop in the Fife village of Anstruther<\/p>\n
The court heard how the author targeted customers as they waited in line outside The Wee Chippy in the Fife village of Anstruther.<\/p>\n
The chip shop is one of three in Scotland recently named as finalists in the Fish and Chip Takeaway of the Year category at the National Fish and Chip Awards.<\/p>\n
The fed-up pensioner \u2013 who penned Scotland\u2019s Hidden Harlots and Heroines \u2013 also grappled with a neighbour and blocked people from using the lane.<\/p>\n
The court was told that the freelance writer became a familiar figure in Tolbooth Wynd as she would regularly tackle visitors to the chip shop.<\/p>\n
Harrower-Gray was found guilty of acting in a threatening or abusive manner by acting aggressively, throwing water at customers and hurling offensive remarks on July 19, 2021.<\/p>\n
She was also found guilty of acting in a threatening or abusive manner on August 3, 2021 by standing in the lane and intentionally blocking it while staring at customers and throwing water at them.<\/p>\n
Additionally, she was found guilty of acting in a threatening or abusive way in Tolbooth Wynd on September 16, 2021 \u2013 firstly by blocking Carla Young, 18, and then her mother, Lisa Young.<\/p>\n
Harrower-Gray was found to have acted aggressively by refusing to let them use the public lane, seizing hold of Lisa Young\u2019s arm and grabbing her dog lead.<\/p>\n
She was found not guilty of a fourth charge which alleged she shouted and swore at a 16-year-old girl on September 18, 2021.<\/p>\n
Nursery worker Carla Young told the trial: \u2018I bumped into Annie and she said I could not go down the public lane to my house.<\/p>\n
\u2018She refused to let me past and pushed me against her wall. She was pretty aggressive and seemed under the influence as I could smell it on her.<\/p>\n
\u2018My mum came out and Annie still refused to let us past. She grabbed my mum by her wrist as she wasn\u2019t letting her past.<\/p>\n
\u2018I don\u2019t know if it was my mum or the owner of the chippy who called the police, but I remember the police turning up.\u2019<\/p>\n
A staff member at the chip shop told the trial: \u2018I have had run-ins with her before. She started assaulting customers, saying they were fat and if they had a fish supper they\u2019d die.<\/p>\n
\u2018I don\u2019t know why, but she always starts it and she was the one standing with a menacing face.\u2019<\/p>\n
Harrower-Gray had been ordered to appear for sentence on September 25, but she failed to turn up and was arrested on a warrant.<\/p>\n
The St Andrews University graduate has written several books including Suspicion and Superstition.<\/p>\n