A Peel woman has been handed a conditional discharge after shouting abuse at a chip shop worker.

Kherree Ann Goldie, of Brack-A-Broom Lane, Poortown, admitted an offence of threatening behaviour after shouting abuse at a woman who was working in the Quayside chippy in Peel.

Goldie said she had been drinking after a funeral before the incident.

Magistrates made the 22-year-old the subject of the 12-month order and ruled that she pay £50 costs.

Prosecuting advocate Barry Swain told the court how the complainant in the case was working at the Quayside chip shop in Peel on June 18.

At 7pm she said she was outside on a break when Goldie and another woman arrived.

She said that both women appeared drunk and they engaged in a brief conversation before the complainant went back inside the chippy.

Goldie was then said to have started shouting abuse at her, swearing at her from outside the shop.

Mr Swain said that there had been a tirade of verbal abuse and the matter was reported to police.

Goldie later told police she could not remember the incident and that she had been to a funeral.

The court heard that she has no previous convictions.

Defence advocate Stephen Wood said: ’This was a bit of effing and jeffing but clearly inappropriate.

’Ms Goldie was earlier in the day at a funeral. Having accompanied a friend to deal with the tragic loss my client was probably not in the right frame of mind and should not have been consuming alcohol to the extent she was.

’It would appear Ms Goldie and her friend have been drowning their sorrows. There has initially been a request for a lighter.

’Something inappropiate was said to Ms Goldie that resulted her in responding.

’She is not a young woman, who in my submission, the court will be seeing again in future.’