Neighbours brandish weapons on Dunfermline street in row over noise

Neighbours on a Dunfermline street brandished weapons at each other in an early-morning row over noise.

At Dunfermline Sheriff Court Shona Stewart, 37, of Skye Road, admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive manner by shouting, swearing, uttering threats and brandishing a baseball bat on her street on July 15.

Depute fiscal Louise Ward said there was a dispute over noise between Stewart and a neighbour with an adjacent garden.

The neighbour had been trying to get to sleep, as had his six-year-old daughter.

He was unhappy about noise coming from Stewart’s house.

Following a fracas Stewart went into the house and came back with the baseball bat, which she brandished at her neighbour.

The neighbour then threatened Stewart and her brother with a knife.

Stewart called the police but she was charged for her part in the disturbance.

Sheriff Craig McSherry deferred sentence until March.