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Scots doctor whose life spiralled into addiction jailed for ripping out stranger's hair in street attack

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alcohol addiction has been jailed for 14 months for a street attack on a stranger. Sophie Robbins pulled out clumps of a woman’s hair in Edinburgh’s Leith Walk after targeting her in an unprovoked assault.

Robbins, 42, then spat on a police officer and kicked him while he was driving her to the station following her arrest.Sentencing her, Sheriff Nigel Ross said Robbins’ fall from a promising medical career was a “bleak story”.

The city’s sheriff court heard on Thursday how Robbins nearly died in 2006 as a trainee doctor when she was stabbed in her bed by a jealous partner.

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