Dancer intimidated Amy, court told

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The 25-year-old singer said she felt intimidated and scared by drunken Sherene Flash when she leaned over and put her arm round her while backstage at the Prince's Trust ball in Berkeley Square, London, last September.

Winehouse would have been happy to pose for a picture with Miss Flash but had asked her to wait for a couple of minutes while she said goodbye to a friend, the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court was told.

She denied punching Miss Flash in the face, but said: "I pushed her up, like away. I wanted her away from me. It was more like an indication of 'Leave me alone, I'm scared of you'.

"I meant to just get her away from me. I was scared. I thought, people are mad these days, people are just rude and mad, or people can't handle their drink."

She added: "I didn't know what she was going to do. She lunged at me and put her arm around me. She was just drunk. I think it was just intimidating. Suddenly, out of nowhere, she's got her arm around me, her face next to mine, and there's a camera in front of me.

"I think she was being overly-friendly, but that was intimidating, I was scared. I'm not Mickey Mouse, I'm a human being."

Winehouse spoke quickly but appeared both confident and controlled as she described the events leading up to the alleged attack, which the prosecutor described as an act of "deliberate and unjustifiable violence".

She told the court Ms Flash towered over her as she was just "five foot two and a half, or five foot three" but said: "My hair does make a difference."

The trial continues.