Comic Roy Chubby Brown in court over car clash

Mar 11 2010 by Colin George, The Journal

Miss Turner told the court that the woman defended herself before her grandmother came to her aid shouting: “What are you doing? She’s only a bairn.”

He drove off when the grandmother told him she would note down the registration number of his car, magistrates were told. Miss Oliver went to the doctors the next day and was told to take painkillers.

Ms Turner said Brown claimed Miss Oliver swore at him and he said this caused him alarm and distress.

She said he was well-known for using bad language in his stage act, during which the audience shouts at him.

She said: “Even if the magistrates do find unpleasantries were exchanged, would this, given the nature of Mr Vasey’s job and his stage act, cause him alarm and distress?”

The court heard Brown admitted in 1996 to common assault occasioning actual bodily harm against his ex-wife, for which he was fined £300 and ordered to pay compensation.

Miss Oliver had two cautions relating to violent incidents and failed to comply with a dispersal notice in 2008, the court was told.

The trial continues.