An Angus woman who offered sexual services to a pensioner and hit him with a poker is appealing her conviction.
Louise McDougall, 25, from Montrose, was jailed for three years at Dundee Sheriff Court in February, after hitting the wheelchair-bound 87-year-old man with the weapon.
She then accused him of sexual assault after she had offered to perform a sex act.
McDougall, formerly of Mount Avenue, had a bid to appeal the length of her sentence rejected by the courts previously but she is being granted the opportunity to contest the conviction instead.
An initial hearing into her appeal will take place on Wednesday in Edinburgh.
At the time of McDougall’s trial, Dundee Sheriff Court heard how she went to the man’s home and took some of her clothes off, offered to perform a sex act and demanded money from her victim, who is profoundly deaf.
McDougall then stamped on his leg and smashed the poker over his head, leaving two wounds that required stitches.
McDougall subsequently lied to police and claimed she had been raped and sexually assaulted by the pensioner.
She told officers she had battered him in an act of self-defence.
But a jury found McDougall guilty of assault, behaving in a threatening or abusive manner, and attempting to pervert the course of justice.