A chef has been cleared of attacking his wife by throwing a toilet roll at her.
Philip Ruddy, 39, admitted hurling the loo roll at his wife but claimed he was doing it to help in the dark.
Claire Woods told a trial that she lashed out by kicking her husband in the testicles and he responded by hurling a toilet roll at her.
Ruddy was arrested by police and charged with assaulting his wife at their home in Scott Street, Perth, on September 27 last year by throwing a toilet roll at her and striking her on the head with it.
Mrs Woods said: “Myself and my husband had a bit of a disagreement. I went to the toilet and he came in after me.
“He said something I didn’t like and I was annoyed. I kicked him in the groin area. He threw the toilet roll at me.
“I came off the toilet trying to dodge the toilet roll and I fell down between the toilet and the bath.”
The couple are no longer in a relationship.
When Ruddy was arrested he told police: “I threw the toilet roll at her because she kicked me in the balls.”
He told the trial: “Me and my wife had been arguing. It was dark. All the lights were off.
“She was having a pee. She looked round for the toilet roll. It was where I was standing, and I threw it.
“When she went to sit back down she fell between the toilet pan and the bath.”
Sheriff Fiona Tait told Ruddy, now of Errol, Perthshire: “I am not satisfied the Crown has proved its case beyond reasonable doubt, with the circumstances of your wife’s evidence that the loo roll had been thrown at her, and I find you not guilty.”