A landlady has been fined after she brandished a Taser at a group of unruly youths to defend herself when they assaulted her outside her own pub.
The incident took place outside the award-winning Coal Exchange in Emsworth, Hampshire.
Dawn Swift, 41, was in the pub's car park when she was mobbed by the large gang of teens who grabbed and kicked her.
She punched back and pulled out a Taser to 'scare' off the 13-strong group but did not actually discharge the weapon.
It was claimed a woman had fired the weapon but Swift denied it was her or that she had seen anyone else fire it.
That was accepted and the landlady was fined £500 and ordered to pay a £50 surcharge, plus £85 in costs at Portsmouth Magistrates' Court.
Prosecutor Graham Heath told the hearing: "There was a disturbance in a car park and she got her taser that she had for many years.
"She admitted that she produced it to warm them off."
A previous hearing was told police were called just after 11pm on August 22 last year to the Coal Exchange, near Portsmouth.
Swift told officers she had been assaulted and that the group of about 13 youths had been causing problems inside and outside the pub.
Prosecuting at that hearing, Lucy Paddick said: "She said a group of youths approached her and started a fight.
"Miss Swift said there were approximately 10 males and three females involved."
A 'dark-haired male' aged between 18 and 20 'kicked and grabbed her' so 'she punched him back', the prosecutor added.
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Ms Paddick added: "The officers spoke to a witness who provided footage of a female using a Taser on a male."
When asked for the taser, Swift said it was 'gone' but it was then retrieved from the car she was fixing in the car park.
In court, Swift admitted having a Taser, brandishing it, and putting it in a glovebox of the car. She said she did not fire it - and did not see anyone else do so.
Swift, who is not the pub's licensee, admitted a single charge of possessing a weapon for the discharge of an electrical incapacitation device.
Swift said: "I showed it to a group of males to try and scare them from the public house but I didn't use it on anyone."
Prosecutors accepted her basis of plea that she did not activate it.
"The crown can't say who used the Taser," Ms Paddick said.
