A woman accused her ex of hacking her phone before spitting on his face, a trial heard.

On Wednesday (19 March) at Alloa Sheriff Court, Stacey Mrozs (38) was found guilty of assaulting her former partner in the town’s D’Nisi café on 24 April 2013.

The complainer told fiscal depute Alison Montgomery that he was on a lunch date with another woman when he spotted Mrozs. She then approached his table, accused him of hacking her phone and then at the end of her tirade spat on his face.

He said, “I was disgusted. I couldn’t believe she’d just done that.” Defending Mrozs, Mr Stan Quirk disclosed that the complainer was a former policeman who had to leave the force after being found guilty of several charges – including perverting the course of justice and accessing information he was not entitled to while an officer.

Mrozs was a witness for the Crown against him during that trial.

Mr Quirk claimed the complainer was not being truthful in court once again and was exaggerating the incident.

However the victim stressed, “It was a deliberate spit.” The complainer’s female lunch date corroborated his story – but the victim discredited part of his evidence by stating he was introduced to the woman by a “friend of a friend”.

That wasn’t honest. As disclosed by the prosecution’s witness they had actually met via an online dating site and that fateful meeting was their first and last date.

During Mrozs’ testimony she said her ex claimed to be a telecommunications expert during their relationship and could take a phone and recover messages from it.

Because of his previous job and the stress of giving evidence against him in court a few months earlier, Mrozs believed that he had hacked her mobile.

The accused – who had attended Alloa Sheriff Court as a witness on the day of the incident – had entered D’Nisi to have a spot of lunch with her mum, brother and brother’s partner after the case had been dismissed.

Mrozs claimed she saw her ex, heard her name being called, and thought he was beckoning her over.

The accused admitted asking the complainer if he had hacked her phone, but denied spitting on him.

Mrozs said that any spittle was accidental.

When interviewed by police after the assault, Mrozs said, “I was extremely nervous and if any saliva was on him it was because I was stuttering because I was so shocked he was in Alloa.” Mrozs accused her ex of revenge following the outcome of the court case against him and claimed that his lunch date was lying because she had an “interest” in the complainer.

Although three defence witnesses supported Mrozs’ story that she did have a heated discussion but did not spit on her ex, Sheriff Ferguson found the accused guilty.

Despite the complainer lying about how he met his lunch date, Sheriff Ferguson found the prosecution’s witness as the most credible, reliable and truthful as she had no reason to lie having only met the victim once and it was not clear whether the defence witnesses were right at the table at the time of the incident.

Sheriff Ferguson told the accused, “This is a nasty assault.” Mrozs, of Tullibody’s Carseview, was fined £250.