Motherwell Miss Scotland finalist walks free from court after facing claims of assaulting her mum

A former Miss Scotland finalist who faced claims she assaulted her mother on Christmas Day has walked free from court.

Lanarkshire woman Anita Walls, 28, was alleged to have attacked Lisa Walls at their home in Motherwell.

A police investigation was launched after Walls was admitted to University Hospital Wishaw. Doctors discovered she had three broken ribs and a punctured lung and she named her daughter as being responsible.

She told a trial she was called a 'fat c**t' and branded ugly by Walls before being repeatedly punched in December last year. A jury heard Lisa was pushed in a bathroom which caused her to strike a toilet pan and dislodge it from the wall.

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Mum-of-one Walls, of Motherwell, denied any wrongdoing and went on trial at Hamilton Sheriff Court. Jurors took less than ten minutes to find charges of assault to severe injury and acting in a threatening or abusive manner not proven.

In evidence, Lisa told depute fiscal Robbie McDougall she spent six days in hospital and was off work for two months following the alleged incident.

She said: "The situation was escalating and I took myself into the bathroom and the next minute the doors burst open and she just started punching me with two hands to the face and she was screaming at me.

"She had two fists and then thumped me so forcibly that I fell backwards and hit the toilet pan with such force it was dislodged from the wall.

"I was in so much pain, I couldn't move lying on the floor and I asked her for help but she just wouldn't help me.

"I actually told her 'I think you've killed me' at one point but she just continued to shout at me and not bother."

Asked why she did not contact police earlier, Lisa replied: "I was frightened to get the police involved because I'm still her mother and I didn't want to get her into trouble but it 100 percent happened, I swear that's the truth and she knows it herself."

Walls, who competed in Miss Scotland in 2017 and 2019, told jurors she was 'sick to her stomach' at the accusations.

She said: "My mum had lost the plot that night and was really upset.

"I have never been physical with anyone, never mind hitting my own mother and this is all just not true.

"I don't know how she got injured but I had nothing to do with them and I wouldn't be physically capable of inflicting those injuries."

Sheriff John Hamilton KC told Walls she had been acquitted and was free to leave the dock.

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