A MUSSELBURGH man has been remanded in custody ahead of sentencing after he admitted assaulting his partner.

Jamie Ross, of Stoneybank Crescent, turned up at the woman’s home in Macmerry and entered the property uninvited.

He shouted and swore at the woman before chasing her through the home and pushing her onto a bed.

He then grabbed hold of the woman’s hair and attempted to snatch a mobile phone from her as she tried to call for help.

Ross then ran from the home after a neighbour heard children screaming, a court heard, and he subsequently tried to headbutt a police officer who had been called out to deal with him.

Ross appeared from custody at Edinburgh Sheriff Court last Wednesday, where he pleaded guilty to two offences.

Fiscal depute Abbie McKearly told the court that the woman was within her home in Macmerry when a drunken Ross turned up at the property at about 8.45pm on October 1.

The woman heard a banging at her side door and was said to be “frightened by his attitude” after she had gone to answer the door.

She told 39-year-old Ross to leave before telephoning the police and her brother.

About 30 minutes later, Ross arrived back at the home and opened the front door with a key.

A row broke out and the court was told that Ross then shouted at the woman and was “pointing in her face” claiming: “Look at what you have done”.

During the confrontation, Ross proceeded to pursue her through the property and then push the woman onto a bed and grab her by the hair.

A neighbour was alerted to the assault when she heard children screaming in fear and she attended at the front door of the home.

Ross then fled the scene and was lost to sight.

Police had been alerted and at about 9.55pm a second call was made stating “an unconscious male” was seen lying near a garage at the village’s Merryfield Avenue.

Officers roused Ross from his drunken stupor but as they were taking him to a waiting police van, he lashed out and attempted to headbutt one of them.

The court was told that there was no impact and Ross had to be interviewed the following day at Dalkeith Police Station as he was too intoxicated that evening.

Ms McKearly told the court that the woman was “not in favour” of the court handing out a non-harassment order.

Solicitor Chris Fehilly said that his client and the woman had been in a relationship for 10 years and that evening Ross was “so drunk he remembers almost nothing”.

The lawyer added that the woman “remains supportive of Mr Ross”.

Sheriff Daniel Kelly refused bail and remanded Ross in custody ahead of sentencing later this month. The sheriff asked the Crown to provide him with a victim impact statement and acknowledged that the offence had been committed while Ross was on four bail orders.

Ross pleaded guilty to acting in an aggressive manner towards the woman, shouting, swearing, pursuing her through her home, pushing her onto a bed, seizing her by the hair and attempting to remove a mobile phone from her, all in the presence of children, at a property in Macmerry, on October 1.

He also admitted assaulting a police officer by attempting to headbutt him at Merryfield Avenue, Macmerry, on the same date.