Crack addict beat up flatmate with vacuum
Attacker was high on cocktail of drink and drugs
A sleazy woman involved in a notorious cement mixer sex trial has been remanded in jail after attacking her flatmate, a court has been told.
Crack user Sharon Kerr, 35, punched, kicked and battered victim Matthew Scott with a metal vacuum cleaner attachment, chasing him down the street while she was high on a cocktail of booze and drugs.
Paisley Sheriff Court heard escort girl Kerr, formerly of Houston Street, Renfrew, but currently at HMP Edinburgh, admitted a string of charges including assault, shoplifting and failure to appear at court.
Fiscal depute Saud Hassan revealed Mr Scott, who lived in the same flat as Kerr, even refused to give police a statement after he was attacked by her on April 5 last year.
Mr Hassan said: “The witness was asleep on the couch in the living room when he was woken by the accused returning home.
“The accused appeared to be intoxicated.
“There was a disagreement between the parties. The accused assaulted Mr Scott by seizing him by the face with both hands where she began to punch him. “She kicked him on the body. “Mr Scott went to leave the locus, where the accused followed him into the street. The accused went back into the property where she returned with a metal pole, part of a vacuum.
“She struck Mr Scott with the metal pole.
“He did manage to get the pole from the accused’s possession and placed the pole in the street.”
The fiscal added that Mr Scott, who was wearing only a pear of jeans, was spotted by another witness during the rammy with Kerr.
When cops got there he was still semi-naked in the street. The pole was recovered and Kerr was arrested by police.
Kerr pleaded guilty to charges of assault, two shoplifting offences and failure to appear at court.
Defence agent Alistair Gray said she was so out of it on drugs she had no memory of the attack.
He said: “The accused was under the influence of crack cocaine, Valium and alcohol at the time of the incident and she has very little recollection of the matter to which she has pleaded guilty today.
“As for the failure to appear matters, it followed the death of her friend, who died at her flat last September. Her failure to appear follows from that.
“The theft matters, you will be able to see, are in keeping with someone who has an entrenched drug addiction.”
The lawyer urged the court to free Kerr on bail, given her admission of responsibilty shown by her guilty plea.
Kerr was among a gang who lured victim John Steven to her flat in Renfrew for seedy sex - apparently involving a cement mixer - in March 2016.
The High Court heard the victim met Kerr at her pad in the town’s Houston Street, and went to a cash machine where he took out £150 to pay her for the sex.
But when they returned to the flat Kerr made herself scarce — and blade thugs Craig Dalton, 33, and Matthew Harrison, 23, turned up and stabbed him repeatedly with a machete and knife all over his body — nearly severing his thumb as he screamed for his life.
Dalton was given seven years and Matthew Harrison six for the bloodbath.
Kerr was given a 32- month Community Payback Order by Lord Kinclaven after admitting two counts of theft by stealing from Mr Steven.
Sheriff Frances McCartney deferred sentence on Kerr to call for background reports and to await the outcome of her appearance before Lord Kinclaven at the High Court in Edinburgh to answer a breach of her CPO.
She said: “I will defer all matters in preparation of a Criminal Justice Social Work Report and a Restriction of Liberty Order Assessment and to await the outcome of matters at the High Court.
“Your application for bail is refused and you will be remanded in custody.”
Kerr will learn of her fate when she appears for sentence next month.