'Female Basil Fawlty': Drunk boss in court for attacking staff

A hotel owner, dubbed ‘the female Basil Fawlty’ is in court for allegedly attacking her staff – Daily Mail reports.

Shirley Bothroyd, a retired Human Rights Lawyer, is on trial for supposedly fighting with her employees at the Bay Hotel in Teignmouth – ironically located down the road from where comedy classic Fawlty Towers was filmed. Bothroyd is accused of slapping and pulling the hair out of one of her chefs, throwing a plant pot at one of her barmen, calling a receptionist ‘thick’ and throwing a Guinness-based concoction at a Police Officer.