A disabled woman alleged to have hurled a chair from her balcony at Yes supporters on the independence referendum campaign trail has been declared unfit to stand trial.
The case against Pettina Capaldi was dropped after Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court heard her chronic medical condition meant she was unable to attend court.
It was claimed that the chair narrowly missed a boy who was with campaigners canvassing for Yes votes, including former SNP deputy leader Jim Sillars.
Miss Capaldi, 54, said to suffer from fybromyalgia which causes pain all over the body, was alleged to have shouted and sworn and thrown the furniture from her home in Kirkcaldy’s Lindores Drive on August 29 last year in the run-up to the referendum.
She attended the first calling of her case late last year in a motorised scooter and with the help of a carer but was absent from several subsequent hearings on medical grounds.
However, Miss Capaldi denied the charge, and on Wednesday the case was abandoned.
She previously claimed she was physically incapable of throwing the seat.
Her solicitor told the court: “The last doctor who saw Miss Capaldi said in a letter he doubts she will ever be fit to attend for trial.”
Sheriff Richard McFarlane deserted the case pro loco et tempore, meaning it could be returned to at a later date.
Mr Sillars had been campaigning for votes in the run-up to the September 18 vote.
He was touring Kirkcaldy in his ‘Margo Mobile’, named after his late wife, the former independent MSP Margo MacDonald.