A WOMAN who threatened to burn down a Musselburgh home has been sentenced.

Michelle Landells, 45, told police officers she would harm Ann Davidson and then torch her Bellfield Court property following an incident in 2016.

Landells had been staying with Ms Davidson when police were called out to deal with a violent episode and took Landells into custody,

At Dalkeith police station, Landells told officers she would “jump on that fat ****’s head and I’m gonna burn her house down”.

Landells appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court last week where she was told she was being admonished.

Sheriff Donald Corke heard the incident took place in March 2016 and that the woman had not been in trouble since.

The sheriff said the woman had “behaved in an unacceptable way” at the police station but noted Ms Davidson was not in attendance when the threats were made and admonished her on the charge.

Sheriff Corke said: “In all the circumstances I would have deferred sentence for you to be of good behaviour but you have been of good behaviour so I will simply admonish you.”

Solicitor Angela Craig, defending, said her client had been taking drugs at the time of the offence and that she “never had any intention of following through with the threats”.

Fiscal depute Lorna Ferrier told the court Landells, of Yarrow Court, Penicuik, had been staying with Ms Davidson at her Musselburgh home when violence erupted after others had arrived at the property.

Co-accused Lisa McGhee, 33, and who appeared from custody, had her not guilty pleas to four charges accepted by the Crown.

Landells admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive manner by shouting, swearing and uttering threats of violence towards Ann Davidson at Dalkeith police station on March 13, 2016.