Amy Winehouse arriveed at Westminster Magistrates Court in Central London on Thursday to face a charge of assaulting a woman after a charity ball last year.

Reuters

Prosecutor Lyall Thompson said the award-winning Back to Black singer seemed to be under the influence of alcohol or “some other substance” when she struck Sherene Flash in a dressing room at the event at Berkeley Square on September 26.

“Miss Winehouse may have felt she had generously agreed to be photographed on her own and not with a drunken stranger.”

“This was a deliberate assault by Miss Winehouse. There was nothing accidental about Miss Winehouse’s actions. She reacted badly to a polite request,” he said.

The 25-year-old songstress denies beating the dancer.