Come Dine With Me winner found guilty of hurling abuse at neighbour

A former Come Dine With Me winner who had sex with a 15-year-old boy has been convicted of hurling racist abuse at her neighbour.

Mother-of-three Lucy Haughey, 44, from Glasgow nabbed a jackpot of £1,000 when she won an episode of the famed Channel 4 show in 2017. 

Lucy Haughey, 44, spewed abusive language towards Roman Kavur, calling him a 'foreign c***' on their shared landing in Glasgow's Cathcart on March 8, 2024.

Glasgow Sheriff Court heard how Haughey, who was said to have smelt of alcohol, also booted Mr Kavur's front door leaving it damaged. 

She has now been found guilty of behaving in a threatening or in an abusive manner which was racially aggravated.

Seven years ago, Haughey was previously given a three-year community payback order for sleeping with a 15-year-old boy. 

Her previous convictions also include stalking social worker Shannon Low in 2017 for which she was sentenced to community service.

Haughey posted a video on social media about Miss Low in 2022 which included abusive comments and was banned from contacting the woman for a decade.

Haughey was fined £515 and ordered to do 234 hours of unpaid work earlier this year for stalking a woman named Joanne Bell.

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The 44-year-old, who is based in Greece, will now have to return to Scotland next month to be sentenced for her latest offence at Glasgow Sheriff Court.

The trial heard that Haughey originally had a cordial relationship with Mr Kavur when he and his partner moved into their flat with their twin babies in April 2023.

The mental health worker claimed that Haughey and his partner, dental nurse Valerie Zbila, had disagreements which he himself did not become embroiled in.

On March 8, 2024, Mr Kavur said he heard shouting near his home at around 6.50pm and went to investigate the noise. 

'I couldn't really hear what she was saying, I heard shouting from the level below us - I didn't know it was Miss Haughey at the time,' he said.

'I looked through the glass window on the door and I saw Miss Haughey and she saw me.

'She seemed intoxicated at the time and said racial abuse at me saying "you foreign c***" or something like that.'

Mr Kavur then said he opened his door, something which he claimed was a 'mistake' on his part.

The procurator fiscal depute asked the witness what he hoped to achieve by opening the door, to which Mr Kavur replied: 'To see why she said it but I don't know - she was intoxicated.

'She came a little bit close to me and I smelled alcohol so I closed the door then called the police.'

The witness claimed that Haughey went on to kick his front door which caused damage to his letterbox.

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When asked how he knew that she kicked the door, Mr Kavur replied: 'I could hear the impact. She was facing towards the door.

He added: 'She was either punching it or kicking it. If she was using her head, I would have seen it.'

Mr Kavur claimed that he initially went to work nearby that night but was allowed to return home after half an hour.

He stated that he could still hear Haughey shouting from her home but could not remember what was said.

Mr Kavur told the court: 'I apologise if it was because the kids were crying or woke Miss Haughey up but it's something that I can't control.'

The witness said that he is in now the process of moving out of the property.

Haughey - who represented herself - stated to her neighbour: 'It was your opinion I was intoxicated when I appeared downstairs on a different level?'

Mr Kavur replied: 'Yes.'

Haughey: 'Wow, you could get a job as a sniffer dog.'

Haughey also put it to the witness that the damage to the door was not submitted into evidence after seven months to which Mr Kavur agreed.

Earlier the court heard PC Josh Kay, 27, say he attended Haughey's home around midnight that day and arrested her.

He said: 'There was a lot of shouting, speaking to a boy who was at the property saying that she should have phoned the police first and if she did so she wouldn't have been arrested.'

Haughey told the court in her evidence today that the entire incident did not happen.

She was asked why she made a comment of: 'This is what happens when people come to your door' to the police on the night of the incident.

Haughey claimed that this was in reference to an incident to a matter from another day, whilst also stating the allegations made by her neighbours were 'lies' and 'malicious.'

She told the court that she now lives in Greece as an author specialising in domestic abuse and her property in Glasgow is up for sale.

Sheriff Collette Gallagher told Haughey when convicting her that she believed the Crown witnesses were 'credible and reliable.'