Google MapsTwo sisters who assaulted a retired police officer and his wife at a Jersey Boys theatre show in Glasgow have been fined.
Lorna Carmichael, 43, initially attacked the man at the King’s Theatre on April 19, 2022.
The nurse punched and scratched the victim near the lobby as both exited with their families.
Her sister care home worker Ann Gillespie, 52, meantime grabbed the man’s wife, 52, on the body which caused her to almost fall down stairs.
Sheriff David Taylor found Carmichael, of Germiston, guilty of assaulting the retired officer while Gillespie, of Garthamlock, was convicted of attacking the woman.
The sheriff ordered Carmichael to pay her victim a further £200 in compensation on top of the fine for the “nasty assault”.
Gillespie was fined £210 for her part after trial.
The court heard matters arose after the man complained to the sisters about them making noise and their “theatre etiquette”.
The retired officer told Glasgow Sheriff Court that one of the siblings said to him that they were “enjoying themselves” to which he replied: “You are just drunk.”
He claimed that a woman then “lunged” at him which caused him to fall on the stairs.
The victim stated that the woman’s body was on top of his legs which pinned him down.
He said: “I just wanted to try and back away rather than push her away.
“At that point she still had a hold of me and I could feel a few blows and scratching to my head.
“I could feel she was trying to get her nails in my eye socket – I spent my time holding her hand away.”
Prosecutor Gail Campbell asked the man how he felt at the time.
He replied: “Shocked that something like that happened at the theatre on a Tuesday night or at all. I was quite shocked.
“Perhaps with my previous employment I could deal with it better than some.”
He said the incident was split up by members of staff and the police also attended.
The former policeman’s wife claimed that Gillespie signalled at her “come on” from the bottom of the stairs at the exit.
The woman said that she grabbed a railing and sat down as she was aware that she was on a set of stairs while Gillespie came towards her.
She said: “It was almost as if she was pulling me – she pulled my t-shirt, she pulled my necklace.
“I had fingernail marks to the top of my chest and I had a bit of blood on my mouth.”
The woman told the court that the incident has left her “too afraid” to go back to the theatre.
Carmichael and Gillespie’s mother told the court in her evidence that the trio were out for her birthday.
The 72-year-old, claimed that the retired officer had called the trio “sl**s” which he had earlier denied.
The pensioner claimed the man was the aggressor who went for Carmichael who she stood in front of.
She said: “I was maybe two or three stairs up. He pushed me and I fell down the stairs.”
She claimed she suffered an arm injury and received injections to heel the pain.
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