A GUEST at a hotel murder mystery weekend who bit and kicked a policeman after he arrested her for being disorderly thought he was all part of the game, a court heard yesterday.

Caroline Shand, 38, described by her solictor as a ''solid citizen'' with a blameless past, became hyperactive when Constables David MacKay and Andrew Thomson were called to calm a rowdy gathering of women guests in her room at the Winnock Hotel, Drymen, Stirlingshire.

Depute fiscal David Cobb told Stirling Sheriff Court that Shand, a volunteer charity worker, was one of a number of guests at the murder mystery weekend in October last year. ''As sometimes happens at on these occasions, matters seemed to spill over into the early morning and the duty manageress received a complaint about a noisy room.''

He said she went twice to ask them to quieten down, and on the second occasion she was told to ''shut up'' by Shand. ''She decided she had had enough and that it would be necessary to call police assistance to try to get the accused to calm down.

''When police arrived the accused was becoming rather aggressive.''

The officers asked her to leave the hotel.

He said: ''That seemd to provoke further disorder from the accused, who continued to use some fairly strong language.''

He said Shand asked the officers if they knew who she was, and added to one of them: ''You'll be sorry, boy.''

Mr Cobb said: ''This was enough for the police who decided they would have to arrest her.''

He said she was taken from her room and put into a police car, continuing to shout en route to Stirling Police Headquarters.

At one point, he said, she leaned foreward and bit PC Thomson on the upper arm, and at the police station, after being cautioned, she kicked him on the leg.

Mr Cobb said the officer was protected by his clothing, and the assaults caused practically no injury apart from a certain amount of reddening.

Next morning, an officer noted in the police station log: ''The accused is still laughing constantly and seems to think that her arrest was part of the murder weekend''.

Defence agent William Boyle said there was ''an element of the surreal'' about the incident.

He said his client was a married mother with a nine-year-old child and was ''a good solid citizen'' with no record, and no social or psychiatric background.

He said the whole incident certainly began with Shand believing the police were part of the role play, though she had to accept that, after a certain point, she realised they were real officers.

He said: ''When the manageress complained the accused was ruder than she would normally have been and she certainly did shout and swear.''

He said she had consumed more drink that evening than she would normally have done.

He went on: ''When the police arrived she thought they were part of the role play and she played up about it.

''She accepts that at some stage that changed, but in a sort of surreal environment with alcohol she got beyond herself.

''She accepts she injured the PC, but I don't think this would ever have occurred in normal circumstances. This was entirely a one-off and won't be repeated.''

Mr Boyle added: ''She was a bit hyperactive because of the murder mystery weekend.''

Shand, of Keptie Road, Arbroath, pled guilty to breach of the peace, and assaulting PC Thomson.

She was fined #300.

Mr John Carpendale, general manager of the Winnock Hotel, said yesterday: ''We've been running these murder mystery weekends nearly every Friday and Saturday for five years and this is the first time a guest's actually been arrested.

''A few years ago, several well-meaning members of the public performed a citizens' arrest on one of the actors after he fired a shot and ran from the building, but normally people can tell fact from fiction.

''This lady, however, truly lost the plot.''

Mr Carpdendale said the deputy manageress involved, Lorna Padden, had handled the incident entirely properly.

The murder mystery weekends involve an overnight stay. During dinner, normally during pudding, actors from a company called Jigsaw Productions stage a murder - often a stabbing or a poisoning - ''police'' are called, and the plot unravels over the next few hours before a denouement after breakfast the next day.