Mum's fury: Bonnybridge offender saw red and went after mother of boy who attacked her son

The 40-year-old woman appeared at Falkirk Sheriff Court last Thursday having pleaded guilty to threatening behaviour – shouting and swearing at uttering threats of violence – at an address in Bonnybridge High Street on June 13 last year.

Things got nasty after she learned of an attack reportedly carried out against her son. She immediately went to confront the mother of the supposed attacker.

Procurator fiscal depute Stewart Duncan said: “The accused attended at the address and demanded the witness come outside. The witness told the accused she was on her phone and the accused said ‘I don’t care – get outside’, then started shouting at her and pointing in her face saying ‘It’s your son – I’m going to kill you’.”

During the incident she pushed the woman to the back.

Police were contacted.

Stephen Biggam, defence solicitor, said the mother-of-two became angry when she learned her son had been attacked.

"Her son had been assaulted at school by this lady’s son that day,” he said. “She said her son was battered and a knife was presented at him.”

Sheriff John MacRitchie noted the woman, who lives in the Bonnybridge area, was a first offender and had been of good behaviour since committing the offence.

Admonishing her, he added: “Don’t get yourself in this position again. Everyone has aberrations in life – you have had yours now.”