Drink driver to learn fate

A repeat drink- driving offender from Wishaw who assaulted her husband and son will learn her fate later.

Patricia Kirk, of Main Street, slapped her husband on the face, threw a glass at him causing fragments to strike his body and threw water over him while he was sleeping, all in the space of a year at her former address in Palmer Crescent, Strathaven.

The 51-year-old attacked her son by throwing a glass bottle at him which hit him on the body.

This happened between October 28 and November 27, 2015. Kirk was released on bail at the time the offences were committed against her son and against her husband – on October 30, May 4 and between November 24 and 27 respectively.

She pleaded guilty to two counts of assault against her husband and a charge of threatening behaviour towards him, and admitted the assault on her son.

Kirk also appeared at Hamilton Sheriff Court on drink driving charges. On November 12, 2014 at Scotmid in Waterside Street, Strathaven and in Palmer Crescent, she got behind the wheel while nearly FIVE times the legal limit.

A roadside breath test recorded 108 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of her breath. The legal limit is 22mcg.

Sentence was deferred on all matters until April 21.

Kirk was handed a 10- year driving ban in January 2015 for drink driving while on bail. On December 4, 2014 she drove along Ashkirk Road in Strathaven while five times over the limit. This time she blew 112mcg of alcohol in a breathalyser test.

Kirk was also handed down a two- year supervision and conduct order and told to complete a driving competency test. A Crown motion for the forfeiture of her vehicle was refused at the time.