Finally, a dose of good news came into Amy Winehouse's tumultuous life. The beehived soul diva was found not guilty on Friday of assaulting a dancer at a charity ball last year. Winehouse, 25, had been accused of deliberately punching dancer Sherene Flash in the eye after the fan asked to take her picture following the Prince's Trust Ball in Berkeley Square, central London, in September.
Although prosecutors claimed it was a deliberate assault, Winehouse, who had pleaded not guilty, said she had merely pushed Flash because she felt intimidated by the drunken fan and claimed she was too short to have hit the dancer in the face.
The judge said, after hearing the evidence, he could not be sure the blow had been deliberate. "The charge is dismissed and the defendant discharged," he said.
"I'm relieved," she told reporters as she left the court. "I'm going home." In a statement read by a spokesman, the Back to Black singer said she was "very happy to move on with her life and put the episode behind her."
