A Scots woman attacked a love rival on her doorstep after confronting her for allegedly cheating with her boyfriend.
Laura Jamieson had grown suspicious her partner Gary Farquhar was seeing the woman behind her back in the weeks before the incident.
Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard how the victim later told cops the love triangle was actually an “open relationship”, a set-up Jamieson denied was true.
Jamieson, 33, appeared in court on Thursday and admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive manner, shouting, swearing, hurling abuse, and kicking the victim on the body.
Fiscal depute India MacLean said the victim had been at home when the accused turned on her door in Wallyford, East Lothian.
Ms MacLean said the two women started arguing and became “engaged in a struggle with each other”.
The prosecutor said Jamieson kicked the victim to the body during the confrontation.
Police were called by passersby and officers arrested Jamieson. Upon being cautioned and charged, she told cops: “She’s talking s**t.”
According to Gary's Facebook page, he and the victim are engaged.
Defence agent Mary Moultrie said her client had been in a relationship with Gary who had “cheated on her with the victim on two occasions”.
Ms Moultrie said Jamieson had been assured there was no longer a relationship between her boyfriend and the victim but she became “suspicious”.
The solicitor said Jamieson went to the victim's door to “recover items” and believed she saw Gary.
The court was told Jamieson asked if they were in a relationship and the victim denied it.
Ms Moultrie said the victim told cops after the incident on November 5 20202 that “the three of them were in an open relationship”, adding Jamieson “doesn’t accept this has ever been the case”.
Sheriff Adrian Fraser fined Jamieson, of Musselburgh, East Lothian, £290.
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