A TEENAGER has been told to be of good behaviour for the next six months after she admitted assaulting her partner while he was driving a car.

Kourtney McKimmie, 19, struck her boyfriend to the head as the pair travelled in the vehicle on a Gullane road earlier this year.

Edinburgh Sheriff Court was told that the man picked McKimmie up from a nearby train station at about 10.40pm and was driving to Gullane when the incident took place.

The teenager was said to have “slapped him on the head” during an argument, leading the man to contact the police when the pair arrived home.

Police arrived at a property on the village’s College Way at about 1.30am and McKimmie was cautioned and charged with the assault.

Solicitor Kenneth Woodburn said that his client and the man were still in a relationship and had recently moved to Wales.

Sheriff John Cook acknowledged that McKimmie was “a young person with previous convictions” and deferred sentence to December for her to be of good behaviour.

The sheriff added that if she stayed out of trouble, she need not travel to court from her new home for sentencing.

McKimmie pleaded guilty to assaulting her boyfriend by striking him to the head within a vehicle at Gullane on January 2.