Bar owner’s wife discharged over row
THE wife of the owner of Glasgow’s Yes Bar was told by a sheriff she had “suffered enough” after she admitted pushing him on the chest in a pub.
Suzanne McLaughlin, 48, met her estranged husband, Jim, at the Ubiquitous Chip bar in Ashton Lane.
It was heard the owner of Yes Bar and Liberte pubs was waiting on his wife at the bar, drinking a pint of Guinness and a large whisky.
Their conversation became heated and she pushed him, causing him to “flinch back”.
Mr McLaughlin, who, it was heard, is a trained fighter, reported the assault eight days later.
Yesterday at Glasgow Sheriff Court, Ms McLaughlin, from the west of the city, wept as she admitted pushing Mr McLaughlin on November 8, last year at the west end bar.
Sheriff Lindsay Wood told the fiscal: “He’s six foot two, a trained fighter and she is being prosecuted for pushing him, with no injury.”
He told Ms McLaughlin: “You have suffered enough, I am granting an absolute discharge.”
This means that she will have no criminal record.
The court was told that at around 9pm Ms McLaughlin met her husband to discuss businesses they shared and the ongoing separation.
But during their “heated” discussion, Ms McLaughlin pushed him with her elbow and forearm before he left the pub.
He contacted the police on November 16 to report the matter.