FOOTBALL WAG Leah Shevlin was branded "arrogant and rude" by a sheriff who cleared her of assaulting a traffic warden.
The 32-year-old mum-of-one was on trial at Glasgow Sheriff Court for allegedly hitting traffic warden Isabell Sinclair with her 4x4 Mercedes on February 1, 2013.
Miss Sinclair claimed she told Shevlin to move her car because she was parked on a double yellow line on Mitchell Street.
She said Shevlin - the fiancée of former Rangers goalie Allan McGregor, who now plays for Hull City - did not move immediately and assaulted her with the car.
Miss Sinclair told the court: "I'm not saying she was intending to kill me, the car came towards me and hit me."
But, after a trial yesterday Sheriff Kenneth Hogg cleared Shevlin of an assault and of the alternative charge of dangerous driving.
He told the court: "I think there is absolutely no doubt that the lady driving in this particular case drove in a fashion which was both arrogant and rude."
Miss Sinclair, 50, told how Shevlin was asked to move because she was parked on a double yellow line.
She told how Shevlin said her daughter was "hysterical" and was stalling for time by being on her phone.
It was heard that someone came out of a nearby sewing shop and handed an item to Shevlin.
The court was told Miss
Sinclair's colleague Julie
MacDonald went over to give Shevlin a ticket.
The traffic warden claimed that while speaking to another gentleman at the window of his van "she (Shevlin) had got in the car and was driving towards me, the wing mirror hit my shoulder".
CCTV footage of the alleged assault was played, but contact with Miss Sinclair's shoulder was not seen.
Defence solicitor advocate Liam O'Donnell asked Miss Sinclair: "On the camera that you had on you, do you see the car hitting you?"
The witness replied: "No, you don't."
Shevlin made no comment outside court yesterday.
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