Birmingham Crown Court(Image: Nick Wilkinson/Birmingham Live)

A woman 'getting her nails done' in Birmingham ended up storming a court trial and later threatened to sue a judge.

Bhopinder Kaur Kalsa caused havoc at the city's crown court by taking a picture of a defendant in the dock before accusing him of defrauding her.

The 45-year-old, from Whitecote Road, Middlesex, later claimed she inadvertently took the photograph by accident while using facial recognition to unlock her phone.

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But she was found guilty of contempt of court and fined £100 on Friday, February 14 after ironically finding herself in the dock and nearly being sent to prison over it.

The offence concerned an incident on September 5 last year, when Rajbinder Kaur was on trial accused of stealing nearly £50,000 from her charity Sikh Youth UK, while her brother Kaldip Singh Lehal was alleged to have helped her lie to The Charity Commission.

Kaldip Singh Lehal and Rajbinder Kaur(Image: WMP)

Giving evidence about her own attendance on the day, Kalsa said she read news articles about the case and believed Lehal had 'lied about his residential address', which was given as Twickenham at the time.

It transpired he had not given false details about where he lived.

Kalsa said: "I was in the area (Birmingham) on a shopping trip on respite and waiting to get my nails done.

"I came to the front office with no intention to come into the courtroom."

She recalled being told to enter court 3 where - unknown to her - the trial was taking place that day.

Kalsa said she spoke to the usher who advised her she could raise the issue with the prosecutor in ten minutes' time when the case was due for break.

She also claimed her phone was broken but it went off, prompting the usher to indicate to her to turn it off.

Kalsa said she used facial ID to unlock her phone with the intention of putting it on 'airplane mode', while at the same time trying to retrieve a bottle of water from her bag for the lady she was with.