Sarah Wilson, 45, and daughter Chardonnay, 20, who are both relatives of a darts legend appeared in court over a fight at a baby shower with two members of another family
A punch-up broke out at a baby shower involving relatives of a famous darts player when they started to play a light-hearted game. Sarah Wilson, 45, and daughter Chardonnay, 20, ended up in court last week over the fracas at the family event in Fife.
They were at a party being held at Lochore Miners’ Welfare Social Club where the atmosphere turned sour with an expectant mum allegedly punched and a gran saying an essential feeding tube was dislodged, a court heard. Sarah Wilson of Kirkcaldy allegedly assaulted Pamela Ritchie by grabbing her hair and repeatedly punching her on the body on May 18 last year, Dunfermline Sheriff Court heard.
And Chardonnay was found guilty of assaulting Yvonne Ritchie, the grandmother of the father-to-be. Sarah is the niece of Scottish darts legend Jocky Wilson – but reacted furiously when asked about her relationship with the late sportsman. She said: “I’m Jocky Wilson’s niece and Chardonnay is his great niece but that has nothing to do with any of this.”
Speaking to the Daily Record yesterday Chardonnay – who was given an absolute discharge by a sheriff after being found guilty – insisted she was innocent.
She said: “I didn’t touch her feeding tube and I didn’t pull her feeding tube out. I didn’t do anything. It took three of them to try and attack me.”
Games at the baby shower, such as baby bingo, were ruined by offensive comments fired back and forth across the hall in Lochore, Fife, Dunfermline Sheriff Court had heard last week. And the bad feeling between the families escalated to violence outside the Lochore hall.
Chardonnay told the court the event had started at 1pm and was a baby shower for her sister Chantelle ahead of the birth of her daughter, which occurred a fortnight later.
She said the two families were sitting at different tables and “at first it was fine”. The court was told there was more arguing during a game of baby bingo and allegations about sexual comments being heard.
There were then claims about an abusive comment, ‘f****** fools”, aimed at the Wilsons, being written on a paper plate. Chardonnay’s mum Sarah will be sentenced on June 4 for her part in the incident.
Gino Gambale, solicitor for Chardonnay, asked for his client to be given an absolute discharge as a conviction would end her career as a carer. The sheriff agreed and gave her an absolute discharge.
Chardonnay continues to refute the claims she was behind an attack on Yvonne Ritchie by punching or kicking her and trying to pull out the breathing tube.
Sheriff Susan Duff said it would “not be proportionate” to impose a sentence which would end a young person’s career in this case. She agreed to the defence request for an absolute discharge.
Chardonnay said: “I was accused of battering Yvonne and I was accused of attempting to pull her feeding tube out. This has gone on for two years. Four months before all of this happened I received threatening messages.”
Sarah admitted in court that she assaulted Pamela Ritchie by seizing her by the hair and repeatedly punching her on the body. Chardonnay Wilson, also of Kirkcaldy, was found guilty of a charge that she assaulted Yvonne Ritchie, who had claimed she attempted to seize her essential feeding tube.