A PENRITH woman who was convicted of assaulting two workers at a Keswick pub – allegedly biting one of them on the hand - has successfully overturned the convictions following an appeal.

Stacy Ann Chambers, 39, denied wrongdoing.

She was found guilty of both assaults after a trial at Workington Magistrates' Court, which went ahead despite her not being present. Those convictions were quashed following an appeal at Carlisle Crown Court.

During the sentencing hearing, prosecutor Andy Travis said that the alleged victims were a man and woman who were working at the Wetherspoons Pub in Bank Street, Keswick, known as The Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.

Miss Chambers was accused of behaving aggressively and "lashing out”, hitting a worker on the shoulder with a bottle during a visit to the pub on July 6 last year. 

When sentenced, the defendant, of Old London Road, Penrith, spoke at length about a trauma she said she had suffered. She was previously a regular at Wetherspoons, and often sat there enjoying a drink and a pepperoni pizza, she said.

But she said that things changed after she suffered a traumatic incident. She told District Judge John Temperley: “Alcohol is not relevant.” What happened was related to the trauma she suffered, she said. 

Miss Chambers was sentenced for the now quashed assault convictions in February but lodged an appeal against them which was heard last week by Judge Richard Archer and two magistrates.