A Tayside woman, who offered sexual services to a pensioner before whacking him with a poker, is appealing her conviction.
Louise McDougall, 25, was jailed for three years at Dundee Sheriff Court, pictured, in February after hitting the wheelchair-bound 87-year-old Montrose man with the weapon.
She then falsely cried rape after she had offered to perform a sex act.
McDougall, formerly of Mount Avenue, Montrose, 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 actual conviction instead.
An initial hearing into her appeal will take place on Wednesday at the High Court of Appeal in Edinburgh.
The court was unable to reveal on what grounds McDougall is challenging the conviction.
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 attacked the OAP by stamping 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.
The court heard that McDougall had gone on to tell “one Oscar-worthy lie after another”.
In her summary, Sheriff Elizabeth Munro said: “Your victim was deaf, without speech, frail, with all sorts of problems, and the way that you behaved in terms of your lies was absolutely shocking to me.
“The vicious nastiness of it was horrendous, and I cannot justify anything other than a custodial sentence.”
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