A police officer shattered a window with stones in a dispute with her neighbours.
Jacqueline O'Neill, 49, left the married couple "terrified" after launching the missiles from her garden. A court heard it happened after a parking row months prior, after which it is alleged O'Neill drove her car at the couple's then 11-year-old daughter.
O'Neill, now suspended as a police officer, was eventually charged with behaving in a threatening or abusive manner and wilfully or recklessly destroying or damaging property belonging to another without a reasonable excuse.
The defendant smashed one of the house's windows with the stones on May 17, 2022, reports Glasgow Live.
It woke the 38-year-old man and his 39-year-old wife in the early hours of the morning at the address in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire.
When asked in court how she felt about the incident, the woman replied: “Terrified, horrified.”
Sheriff Matthew Jackson KC said O'Neill will be sentenced at Glasgow Sheriff Court next month, but she was not proven on a charge of careless driving after the hearing.
The woman claimed O'Neill drove her car at her daughter on March 28 2022. She stated that her daughter went to collect her brother from school with another girl.
O'Neill meantime returned home and spoke with the woman after parking her car.
Miss Campbell asked what was said.
She replied: “Ha ha, next time I won’t miss.”
The witness claimed that she did not know what she meant, initially believing it to be about O'Neill hitting her car with a bin.
Her daughter then returned home. The woman stated that the girl was “hysterical.”
The woman added: “She was crying, shaking and said ‘That woman next door tried to knock me down’.”
Miss Campbell: “Who did you take her to be identifying as the woman next door?”
The witness: “Jacqueline O’Neill.”
She stated that she felt “really sick and anxious” after putting the story together.
