Campbell River woman guilty of assault for coughing on grocery store employees in 2020
Posted: Apr. 25, 2023 9:00AMA woman has been found guilty of causing a disturbance, and two counts of assault for an incident at the Campbell River Save on Foods in April 2020.
In the Provincial Court of British Columbia, Jacqueline Poulton, who was a supervisor at the store at the time, testified she saw Woolman come into the store and “aggressively” asked Poulton why the front area was cordoned off. At one point, Woolman abruptly stopped and when Poulton was within three feet, Woolman turned to her and forcibly coughed twice in Poulton’s face, then she carried on into the store.
At the entrance, a fifth employee, Gord Dawson, arrived to help. The employees tried to stop Woolman from leaving with the cart, since it had unpaid merchandise in it. Woolman said she struggles to walk and needs the cart, an employee offered to get her an empty cart to use.Sign up for our newsletter to get breaking news and daily digests sent to your email.“Mr. Dawson testified that Ms. Woolman ‘kept trying to ram into me … rocking it back and forth trying get me off so she could go around me.
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