Teacher drove over wedding dress in bizarre Boxing Day row

A TEACHER drove back and forward over her wedding dress in a row with her estranged husband, the deputy rector at the same school.

Julie Young, 45, was found guilty of breach of the peace after a trial at Dunfermline Sheriff Court. After a doorstep row in Cairneyhill, she was handed her old wedding dress in a box by her husband’s dad.

She threw the dress down on a busy road and drove back and forward over it, telling one of her children to video the incident. The video was shown in court.

David Young, 79, said his daughter-in-law turned up at his home banging on the door on Boxing Day morning. He said, when he spoke to her, she was acting aggressively and both he and his wife were left feeling “intimidated

and harassed”. Young also had a doorstep conversation with her estranged husband. She told the court she is an English teacher at Kirkcaldy High School but was suspended ahead of the court case.

Young, formerly of Milne Road, Dunfermline, now living in Kirkcaldy, was convicted of a charge that on December 26 at Main Street, Cairneyhill, she attended at the door uninvited, adopted an aggressive demeanour towards the couple living there, the parents of her husband, and drove a car aggressively by repeatedly driving forwards then reversing.

In her evidence, Young denied acting aggressively and claimed that her fatherin-law had thrown the box containing the dress on the ground. She was upset because the dress was “precious” to her. However, she then took the dress out of the box and threw it on to the road before driving over it. Defence solicitor Ian Beatson conceded that if he had witnessed the incident he would have been “bemused” by it.

“We’re all bemused by it,” said Sheriff William Gilchrist.

After finding Young guilty he admonished her for the offence. Last month, she was in the same court after driving when more than four times over the limit. She was sentenced to a community payback order with 200 hours of unpaid work and a 12-month driving ban. Police had received information to say a drunk driver had been involved in a collision and was now continuing on her way.