Courts in Moray: Keith woman (68) shouted racial abuse
A woman who racially abused two people has been placed under court supervision for a year.
Rosemarie Harvey appeared at Elgin Sheriff Court where she admitted committing the offences during the evening of July 10.
The first person to be verbally abused was a woman who had driven to Nelson Terrace, Keith, to pick up her children from her in-laws.
Harvey, who lived nearby, came out of her house and asked the woman what all the noise was.
The 68-year-old then added: "Go back to your country, you Asian."
Police officers were called to the scene and arrested Harvey.
As she was being led to a police van, she shouted at her neighbour: "**** off you Asian".
Defence solicitor Stephen Carty said his client had been upset due to a prior dispute with her neighbour
The lawyer added: "On occasions she consumes too much alcohol."
Passing sentence, Sheriff Robert McDonald said: "There's no place for behaving in this sort of way or making these sort of comments."
