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Former Miss Scotland guilty of biting two bouncers & racially abusing one of them at boozy rugby event
Disgraced beauty queen Lucy Thomson, 26, was stripped of her title after the shameful antics.
A FORMER Miss Scotland has been found guilty of biting two bouncers and racially abusing one of them.
Disgraced beauty queen Lucy Thomson, 26, was stripped of her title after the shameful antics at a rugby tournament.
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A two-day trial at Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard how she had lashed out at the security guards before hurling the “N-word” at Andrew Okpaje, 26, during a drunken rant.
The confrontation came as she and her sister were being chucked out of the Edinburgh City 7s event in June 2023.
Thomson was the reigning Miss Scotland at the time after being crowned 11 months earlier at a glam ceremony in Glasgow’s Grand Central Hotel.
Mr Okpaje told the court he was employed as a supervisor for MK Security at the tourney, which was held at the capital’s Peffermill playing fields.
He explained he and two colleagues were asked to attend to a report of a drunk woman at around 7pm.
The decision was then made that “they were to be escorted off the site”.
But as the stewards tried to remove the sisters, Thomson “started fighting back”.
Mr Okpaje said she asked him: “Do you know who I am?” and added: “I’ve got so much money in my account.”
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His evidence continued: “We were holding her and trying to be as gentle as possible.
“But while I had my arm up, she went to bite it.
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“It left a mark on my hand. I looked at her in shock.
“And then she proceeded to call me the ‘N word’.
“She looked directly at me and, with confidence, she said, ‘F*** you then, you f***ing n****.’
"I hadn’t heard the word said to me in a while.
“It was quite a shock when it happened. Pretty horrible.”
His fellow security officer Alasdair Doolan, 32, told the trial Thomson had also bitten him during the incident.
She was arrested after Mr Okpaje called the police over the racial abuse.
Footage of her and her sister being ejected was posted on social media.
Thomson, of Crossford, Fife, denied assaulting the two men and using racist language.
She said she’d been invited to the event as “an ambassador” and had promoted it on her social media accounts.
Thomson told the court she drank two and half ciders and saw her sister being “cornered into a woodland area” by security staff before she was assaulted by one of them.
She claimed she was struck from behind and dragged across a pitch without warning.
Thomson insisted she did not say anything towards the men apart from “shouting for help”.
But on Friday Sheriff Derek O’Carroll said her version of events was “utterly implausible”.
He convicted her of assaults on both men by biting them and racially aggravated assault of Mr Okpaje.
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The sheriff fined Thomson a total of £790.
After her arrest, organisers of the Miss Scotland pageant said she’d been “dethroned”.
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