A TRANENT hairdresser hit her boyfriend over the head with a vase and poured a bottle of fabric softener over him during a violent row about an ex-girlfriend.

Angela Fyfe, 34, lashed out at her partner when the pair clashed over a former girlfriend of his in February.

Fyfe then assaulted a police officer by coughing at him, while she also shouted racist abuse at a second officer after she had been arrested.

Fyfe, of the town’s Meadowside, pleaded guilty to three charges when she appeared in the dock at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Friday.

Prosecutor Alan Wickham told the court that Fyfe and the man had been drinking alcohol as they celebrated a friend’s engagement before she turned violent at her home earlier this year.

Mr Wickham said that the hairdresser became “abusive” towards her boyfriend due to a conversation about his former partner and she locked him out of her home, forcing him to break a window to regain entry.

The fiscal depute said that during the confrontation, which was said to have taken place throughout the home, Fyfe “grabbed a purple vase and hit him on the head” with it.

The man managed to wrestle the makeshift weapon from Fyfe and smash it on a wall before she then picked up a carton of fabric softener and poured the liquid over his head.

The court heard that the drunken stylist was subsequently arrested later that evening and, while on route to an Edinburgh police station, she spat within the van and called a female officer “a f***ing Polish b****”.

The out-of-control hairdresser then coughed on purpose at PC Alan Clark while she was being processed at the Capital’s St Leonard’s Police Station.

Lawyer Andrew Docherty, for Fyfe, said that his client had been a hairdresser for 20 years but was currently out of work.

Mr Docherty said that Fyfe was “deeply ashamed and embarrassed” at landing herself in court and she had mixed anti-depressants and alcohol that evening.

The solicitor added that the couple had briefly reconciled after the violent row but had since split up.

Sheriff Nigel Ross said that the hairdresser’s behaviour had been “inexplicable” and fined her a total of £395.

Fyfe pleaded guilty to an amended charge of assaulting her boyfriend by striking him with a vase and pouring fabric softener over him at her home in Tranent on February 13.

She also admitted to spitting within a police vehicle and making offensive and racial remarks to a police officer while on route to St Leonard’s Police Station in Edinburgh on the same date.

Fyfe also pleaded guilty to assaulting PC Alan Clark by coughing at him at the police station on the same date.