Woman forced her way into ex’s flat armed with knife

A psychiatric assessment has been ordered on a Perth woman who forced her way into her former partner’s city centre flat - and then armed herself with a knife.

Twenty-two-year-old Alexandra O’Neil also repeatedly shouted that she was being attacked by her ex-boyfriend and threatened to self-harm in the street while covered in blood and still in possession of the blade.

The accused was to have discovered her fate at Perth Sheriff Court on Wednesday but solicitor Linda Clark asked that further information be obtained after a background report raised concerns as to whether she would be able to“cope”with a community payback order.

The lawyer explained that her client suffered from post traumatic stress disorder.

O’Neil admitted that on August 30, 2016, she attended uninvited at the flat occupied by ex-boyfriend Ross Simpson in the city’s Kinnoull Street, repeatedly struck the front door - and forced entry.

She shouted and acted in an aggressive and erratic manner, armed herself with a knife and threatened to self-harm.

O’Neil then stabbed herself in the body and repeatedly shouted that she was being attacked by her boyfriend.

And once outside in the street, while covered in blood and still in possession of the knife, she shouted and screamed and continued to self-harm.

O’Neil also pled guilty to a second charge of assaulting Andrew Laurie at a flat in Perth’s King Edward Street on August 30, 2016, by repeatedly punching him on the head and scratching him on the head and body, to his injury.

Sheriff William Wood deferred sentence for the psychiatric assessment and a supplementary community justice social work report until August 22.

The circumstances which led up to the two charges will be given next month.