LONDON — A British judge Friday acquitted Amy Winehouse of assaulting a fan who asked to take her picturea dose of good news in the beehived soul diva’s tumultuous life.
District Judge Timothy Workman found the 25-year-old singer not guilty of punching dancer Sherene Flash in the eye after the fan asked to take her picture following a charity ball in September.
Prosecutors claimed it was a deliberate assault. Winehouse said she had merely pushed Flash because she felt intimidated — and claimed she was too short to have punched the dancer in the face. The judge said after hearing the evidence, he could not be sure the blow had been deliberate.
In a statement read by a spokesman, the singer said she was “very happy to move on with her life and put the episode behind her.”
