祖母, 43, who ‘tried to snatch a baby in Lidl’ but was stopped when shoppers formed a barricade around his pram is found guilty of assault
A grandmother has been found guilty of assault ‘after she tried to grab a baby in a supermarket’, 裁判所は聞いた. Carolyn Taylor, 43, stood trial at Teesside Magistrates’ Court last week following an incident on December 4, last year at Lidlが豊富です, in Stockton.
During the hearing it was claimed the Teessider repeatedly tried to grab a baby boy from a buggy in the supermarket. しかしながら, Taylor denied the act and said she would ‘never hurt a child’.
The child’s mother was unable to attend court but a fellow shopper gave evidence. 彼は言った: ‘I’d gone into Lidl and as I was walking down I saw a young lady pushing a buggy and behind her was the defendant following her. Straight away I could tell something was amiss.
‘The mother was distressed, she seemed heartbroken. The defendant was fixating on the baby saying there was something wrong with him. She went to grab the hat from the baby. She was fixating on him. It was just madness, crazy.’
Grandmother Carolyn Taylor, 43, of Stockton, pictured outside Teesside Magistrates’ 裁判所, had denied assault following the incident in Lidl in Stockton on December 4, 2021
Taylor will be sentenced for assault at Teesside Magistrates’ 裁判所 (写真) 七月に 13
The witness said he felt ‘threatened’ by the defendant and said she repeatedly kept trying to grab the baby leading to himself and fellow shoppers building a barricade around the mother and pram.
A day later, Taylor was interviewed by police and denied the offence. During the trial the Teessider – 以前に有罪判決を受けたことがない人 – claimed she visited the shop to buy lunch and said to the mother: ‘isn’t he cute?’ but said the woman took offence.
彼女は言いました: ‘I remember walking in the shop and I approached a lady who had a child in a pushchair. I said isn’t he cute? And she looked at me strangely so I said is he ok? She pulled the pushchair back very abrupt and said what are you doing? I was a bit taken back and shocked. It’s all exaggerated. I did not go to grab him I said he didn’t look very well and lifted his hat slightly.’
テイラー, of Stockton, was found guilty of assault and will be sentenced on July 13 at Teesside Magistrates’ 裁判所.
