Heather Mills, being a novice ballroom dancer and all, knew that photographer wasn't trying to engage her in a pas de deux.

U.K. shutterbug Jay Kaycappa was found guilty Wednesdsay of assault for grabbing Mills' right shoulder and spinning her around to get a better view of her face as she was bicycling to her seaside home in the tony Esplanade area in East Sussex, near Brighton, on July 5, 2006.

"I panicked and thought, I'll go back the other way, and that's when I turned round and saw Mr. Kaycappa," Paul McCartney's estranged missus said in Brighton Magistrates Court over the course of the three-day trial.

Mills said that she had stopped off in an underground pedestrian passageway when she noticed a horde of paparazzi attempting to photograph her, a common occurrence ever since she became the wife of a Beatle in 2002 and even more so since splitting from said rock icon in May 2006.

"I felt concerned…because I had one there and one there and I felt like a trapped animal," testified Mills, who was not in court Wednesday to hear the verdict.

"I felt him pull me round and then run back to get my picture. He yanked me round. I was facing the wall and he was pulling me round because I was not letting him take my picture. He then pulled me round and took my pictures."

The 39-year-old former model also said later during the proceedings that the military should have just sent a pack of journalists after Saddam Hussein. "They find everything," she said.

Mills' personal trainer, Benjamin Amigoni, who said that he cycled into the subway to meet with Mills after she got separated from their group, testified that Kaycappa "moved in behind her, hand on the shoulder, and moved her around."

Prosecutors presented two conflicting statements given by Kaycappa to the police, one saying, "So I spun her around, I must have spun the bike around as well," and the other saying, "I wish to clarify—what I actually said was, I would find it hard to spin her around when she was on the bike."

Kaycappa, who denied the charges, was also convicted of assaulting Mills' friend, Mark Payne, the following evening when he showed up to take more pictures of Mills.

At one point during the trial, Mills' attorney, Dale Sullivan, said to Kaycappa on the stand: "You hunted this lady. She was like Little Red Riding Hood."

To which Kaycappa responded, "I don't think she's like Little Red Riding Hood. She's more like the wolf."

The father of three from Hampshire, who's out on bail in the meantime, is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 16. Mills, an avid animal rights activist and ever the humanitarian, told the court that jail time would be excessive and said that community service would probably "sort him out."

"Heather is delighted that justice has been done and that the photographers who pursue her on a daily basis will now leave her and her daughter alone," a rep for Mills said after court today.

Mills and McCartney reportedly reached a settlement in their tabloid-friendly divorce in March, with Mills supposedly agreeing to accept $56 million in cash and joint custody of their three-year-old daughter, Beatrice.

"If I was a gold digger I would be a very wealthy woman now, and I'm not," Mills told KIIS-FM morning host Ryan Seacrest in April in the midst of her six-week run on Dancing with the Stars.

About all the nah-sty stories circulating: "The biggest insult was to Paul, because it's just like saying he's so stupid that he would just be with somebody like that," she said.

Mills won undisclosed damages from Britain's Sunday Mirror in April, which had reported the month before, under the headline "Beatled," that she had been exposed in court as "a fantasist and a liar" and had erupted in a tearful, ranting rage when the so-called truth came out.

"We now accept that the judge did not throw out any of her claims, she was not portrayed as a liar in court and she did not erupt in rage," the tabloid stated in a printed apology.