Amy Winehouse acquitted of assault

A judge in London, England, has acquitted Amy Winehouse of assaulting a fan who asked to take her picture.

District Judge Timothy Workman found the 25-year-old singer not guilty of punching dancer Sherene Flash in the eye after the fan asked to take her picture following a charity ball in September.

Prosecutors claimed it was a deliberate assault. But Winehouse said she had felt intimidated by the drunken Flash and claimed she was too short to have hit the dancer in the face.

Winehouse shot to stardom with the Grammy-winning album Back to Black in 2006, but her music has been overshadowed by reports of drug use, run-ins with the law and a tempestuous marriage.