A former Come Dine With Me queen has been slapped with a £420 fine for spewing vile racist abuse at her neighbour. Lucy Haughey, 44, who clinched victory in the popular Channel 4 cook-off back in 2017, was found guilty of dishing out threatening or abusive antics that were racially charged after she branded her neighbour Roman Kavur, 25, a "foreign c-word" on their shared landing in Glasgow's Cathcart district on March 8, 2024.
The reality TV champ, who was reportedly reeking of booze, also gave her neighbour's door a booting. Sheriff Collette Gallagher served her up with a one-year non-harassment order alongside the hefty fine.
The drama unfolded when it was revealed during her trial that initially, there was no beef between Haughey and Kavur when he first set up shop in his flat with his dental nurse partner Valerie Zbila and their tots in April 2023.
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Things kicked off around 6.50pm, with a commotion catching Kavur's attention, leading him to snoop through his door’s glass window as reported by The Sun. "I couldn't really hear what she was saying, I heard shouting from the level below us - I didn't know it was Miss Haughey at the time," he said. "I looked through the glass window on the door, and I saw Miss Haughey, and she saw me."
Looking tanked-up, Haughey hurled racial slurs at him, blurting out "you foreign c-word" or words to that effect.
When Kavur popped his door open, something he later branded a "mistake", and pressed on why he did it, he admitted: "To see why she said it but I don't know - she was intoxicated.", reports the Mirror.
He claimed Haughey came close to him, reeking of booze, prompting him to shut the door and call the cops. Kavur then alleged that Haughey started kicking his front door, damaging the letterbox in the process.
When quizzed on how he knew she had kicked the door, he replied that he "could hear the impact". He told the court: "She was facing towards the door - she was either punching it or kicking it. If she was using her head, I would have seen it."
Later, Kavur apologised to the court, suggesting that the commotion might have been triggered by his crying kids, which could have woken Haughey.
He mentioned that they are in the process of moving out of the flat. During the trial, Haughey, representing herself, questioned Kavur: "It was your opinion I was intoxicated when I appeared downstairs on a different level?" When Kavur confirmed, she shot back: "Wow, you could get a job as a sniffer dog."
Haughey pointed out that the damage to Kavur's door wasn't submitted as evidence for seven months, which Kavur agreed with.
In her testimony, Haughey denied the entire incident. When asked about her comment to the police "This is what happens when people come to your door", she claimed it referred to a different matter on a different day.
She dismissed Kavur and Zbila's claims as "malicious" and "lies". Haughey, with a history of convictions, was slapped with a three-year community payback order seven years back for having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old lad.
In 2017, she was handed community service for stalking social worker Shannon Low. On top of that, just last year, she dropped an online video of abuse about Low and got hit with a 10-year no-contact order.
And if that wasn't enough, earlier this very year, Haughey copped a £515 fine plus a hefty 234 hours of unpaid graft for hounding another woman, Joanne Bell.
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