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   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   Woman Caught Urinating on President Trump’s Golf Course Loses Legal   
   Case Against His Company   
      
    A woman who tried to sue Donald Trump’s golf   
   course for damages after being photographed urinating on it has lost   
   her case.   
      
   Rohan Beyts (pictured) wanted £3,000 (about $3,750) for what she claimed was   
   a breach of data protection laws after staff at the course in Aberdeenshire,   
   Scotland, caught her.   
      
   Staff said they photographed Beyts as part of an evidence-gathering exercise   
   for what was assumed to be a criminal act.   
      
   But the sheriff presiding over the case in Edinburgh ruled against Beyts,   
   saying that any distress she suffered was not caused by the company’s   
   failure to register under the Data Protection Act.   
      
   However, Sheriff Donald Corke added that Beyts “should not have been   
   photographed”.   
        
   During the hearing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court Beyts admitted she suffered from   
   bladder problems and was caught short while walking through the course in   
   April 2016. Giving evidence, she said she had hidden in sand dunes out of   
   sight as she urgently    
   needed to urinate.   
      
   Four days later, police visited her home in Montrose, and charged her with   
   public urination. That case was later dropped. But Beyts then turned the   
   tables on Trump’s company, saying it had breached data protection laws by   
   photographing her.   
      
   Paul Motion, representing Trump’s company, said Beyt’s wide publication of   
   the events through the media and Facebook, including the Trip up Trump page,   
   raised doubts about how distressed the incident had been for her.   
      
   He also suggested the “true basis of the claim has been to publicise   
   opposition to the course”.   
      
   Speaking outside court, Ms Beyts said she was “relieved the case was over”.   
      
   She said: “To me it was never about the compensation – I wasn’t   
   interested in money. I was only interested in clearing my name when the Trump   
   organisation representative spoke of me committing a deliberate and shameful   
   act within a few feet of the    
   club house in few view of staff and guests.”   
      
   Mike Dailly, her lawyer, said his client had been “utterly vindicated”   
   adding that that the sheriff had found her evidence “reliable and   
   credible”. He said: “The reason we’ve not won compensation is on a   
   technical point.”   
      
   But Trump International Golf Links said in a statement that the organisation   
   was “satisfied that justice has prevailed”.   
      
   A spokesman said: “The disingenuous claim by Rohan Beyts was a perversion of   
   the truth and nothing more than a poor attempt at self-publicity in an effort   
   to garner support for her anti-Trump, anti-business propaganda.   
      
   “It’s a disgrace that valuable time and money has been wasted defending a   
   genuine north east business and its honest, hard-working personnel from this   
   nonsense.”   
      
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