Footie WAG’s glass attack on love rat after ‘physical and emotional abuse’ Relationship with ex-player Walker was ‘toxic’, court told
FORMER DON CAUGHT KISSING ANOTHER WOMAN
A JEALOUS WAG smashed a glass over her footballer boyfriend’s head after she caught him kissing another girl in a nightclub.
Lauren Dinse, 31, struck former Aberdeen player Josh Walker with the tumbler when she spotted him in a clinch with a woman at the Lulu club in Edinburgh.
Dinse left the midfielder bleeding from a deep gash to his head. The wound needed 11 stitches.
Dinse, who has two children with Walker, admitted the attack when she appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court last month and she returned to the dock for sentencing yesterday.
Neil Martin, defending, claimed his client had been involved in an abusive relationship with Walker and she’d suffered “emotional and physical abuse” by him.
He told the court Walker had been unfaithful to Dinse and said the footballer had once spiked her drink with medication after he had contracted a sexually transmitted disease. Martin added that Dinse had been “under the influence of alcohol” at the time of the glassing and that she had spent “a harrowing” weekend in the cells following the incident last December.
Dinse is now seeking help from Women’s Aid and has been “remorseful” about the attack.
Martin added: “The narrative in the case was that the complainer Mr Walker was standing speaking to another female but what can be seen clearly [in the CCTV] is that he is kissing another female in the nightclub. This does not justify what she did but it adds some context. But the relationship was clearly toxic and is now over.”
Sheriff Adrian Cottam said: “The information that has come out... does not excuse your actions, which could have been even worse for Mr Walker.”
The sheriff ordered the receptionist to be supervised for 12 months as an alternative to custody.
Walker, 30, recently retired from the game due to a serious knee injury. One of his career highlights was scoring Aberdeen’s opening goal in a UEFA Cup match against Bayern Munich at Pittodrie in 2008.
He also played for the likes of Middlesbrough, Watford, Bournemouth and Edinburgh City.