Disgraced beauty queen Lucy Thomson bit two bouncers and called one of them a racist slur during a boozed-up incident at a rugby tournament which saw her stripped of her title
A beauty queen bit a security guard and called him the n-word in a boozed-fuelled racist attack at a rugby tournament, a court heard.
Disgraced Lucy Thomson, 26, sank her teeth into the hand of Andrew Okpaje and made the racist slur while she was being thrown out of the Edinburgh City 7s competition. She was stripped of the Miss Scotland title she had won just 11 months earlier after her shameful drunken outburst.
A two-day trial at Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard how she had lashed out at the security guards as she and her sister were being thrown out of the event, which was held at Peffermill playing fields in the city at June 2023.
She also bit a second security officer and shouted “Do you know who I am?” and “I’ve got so much money in my account” during the rant.
Mr Okpaje said he and two colleagues were asked to attend to a report of a drunk woman at around 7pm and the decision was then made that both women “were to be escorted off the site”. Footage of her and her sister being ejected was posted on social media.
The Sun reports that he told the court: “We were holding her and trying to be as gentle as possible. But while I had my arm up, she went to bite it. It left a mark on my hand. I looked at her in shock.
“And then she proceeded to call me the ‘N-word’. She looked directly at me and, with confidence, she said, ‘F*** you then, you f****** n*****.’ I hadn’t heard the word said to me in a while. It was quite a shock when it happened. Pretty horrible.”
Thomson, of Crossford, Fife, was arrested after Mr Okpaje called the police over the racist jibe but denied assaulting the two men and using racist language at court.
She said she’d been invited to the event as “an ambassador” and had promoted it on her social media accounts.
Thomson told the court she drank two and half ciders and saw her sister being “cornered into a woodland area” by security staff before she was assaulted by one of them.
She claimed she was struck from behind and dragged across a pitch without warning and insisted she did not say anything towards the men apart from “shouting for help”.
But on Friday Sheriff Derek O’Carroll said her version of events was “utterly implausible”.
He convicted her of assaults on both men by biting them and racially aggravated assault of Mr Okpaje.
The sheriff fined Thomson a total of £790. After her arrest, organisers of the Miss Scotland pageant said she’d been “dethroned”.
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