Woman Who Peed On Trump Golf Course Can’t Collect Damages
April 10, 2017
An Edinburgh Sheriff Court judge ruled that Carol Rohan Beyts should not have been filmed urinating on a Scottish golf course owned by U.S. President Donald Trump, but declined to award her damages. Beyts, a campaigner against the golf course for years, claimed staff breached data protection laws by secretly taking the pictures of her in April 2016. She says she has bladder problems, and had no choice but to urinate in a sand dune. Beyts had sought 3,000 pounds in damages. People “taking pictures of females urinating in the countryside put themselves at real risk of prosecution under public order or voyeurism,” judge Donald Corke warned. After the ruling, Beyts said she was “very relieved.”
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