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Drunk lawyer’s outburst moments before ‘racially attacking her neighbour after all-day drinking session’
The lawyer works on racial discrimination cases
A DRUNK lawyer racially attacked a neighbour after an all-day birthday boozing session with her boyfriend, a court has heard.
Scarlett Milligan, who has worked on both the Grenfell Tower fire and infected blood inquiries, allegedly grabbed Kemi Adebiyi’s neck and referred to her skin colour.
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She denies the charges and claims that she was in fact the victim of a violent assault by Ms Adebiyi.
Ms Adebiyi is said to have come out of her house to check on Milligan as she lay in the road crying after getting locked out at midnight following a row with her partner.
The court heard that junior counsel Milligan, 31, and commercial and chancery counsel Benjamin Waistell, 33, had been drinking since 1pm in May 2022.
Footage filmed by Ms Adebiyi on her mobile and clips from a video doorbell nearby show Milligan shout, “Shut your door you ugly c**” and “You f**ing ugly t*”.
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Ms Adebiyi also says she called her a “black b***h” or “black b**t” but did not film the words as she was calling police at the time.
Footage played to the jury shows Waistell yelling: “Sorry someone being sad is disturbing you. F off.”
Ms Adebiyi also shouts: “I am going to stream this. You’re going to lose your jobs you f***ing racists.”
Prosecutor Nicholas Hearn described it as a “deeply unpleasant altercation”.
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Human rights lawyer Milligan, who works on racial discrimination cases, admitted to police that she was drunk.
Ms Adebiyi told the jury: “I believe there were racially-tinged insults throughout.
“She made threats about kicking my head in and the next thing I knew she was in my door grabbing my neck and I grabbed her hair.
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“The door gets violently slammed open by her partner, slamming me into the wall. He is built like a rugby player. I am sure he has a face for his clients, but that is different from the angry face I saw.”
Dr Ashley Fegan-Earl, an expert forensic pathologist, told the Cout that there was “no pathological evidence” of injuries to Ms Abediyi’s neck and that Ms Milligan’s account of being assaulted by Ms Adebiyi was consistent with the injuries she received.
Milligan, of Wandsworth, South London, denies racially aggravated assault.
The Kingston-upon-Thames crown court trial continues.
Ms Abediyi’s allegations against Mr Waistell were considered during a trial at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court last year where Mr Waistell was acquitted of all charges.
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