A Carradale woman pleaded guilty to behaving in a threatening or abusive manner after making ‘gorilla motions’ at her mixedrace neighbour.
Willena Rutherford, aged 51, of 31 Tormhor, Carradale, pleaded guilty to the charge, which was likely to cause a reasonable person to suffer fear or alarm, after she uttered offensive comments and made racial gestures, when she appeared before Sheriff Patrick Hughes in Campbeltown Sheriff Court.
Procurator fiscal depute Eoin McGinty said that Rutherford’s neighbour was moving out of a property nearby. Rutherford stood on a common pathway and shouted offensive comments while ‘making gorilla motions with her arms, jumping backwards and forwards’ which the neighbour believed 0to be directed towards her and her ethnicity.