A DUNFERMLINE woman spat on police officers after claiming she had coronavirus.

Victorija Sakalauskaite had earlier assaulted her then partner violently, leaving him with deep scratches and a black eye.

She also kicked a custody worker at Dunfermline police station.

However, 23-year-old Sakalauskaite, of Norway Gardens, avoided a jail term when she appeared for sentencing at Dunfermline Sheriff Court after admitting a series of offences.

She admitted that on March 22, at Norway Gardens and on a journey between Edinburgh and Dunfermline police station, she struck a door repeatedly with a knife, causing damage to it, shouted, and spat within a cell in a police van repeatedly whilst shouting that she was infected with coronavirus.

She also assaulted her then partner by punching him repeatedly, scratching him, struggling with him, causing him to fall to the ground and threw a knife at him, all to his injury.

She assaulted a police officer by kicking him on the body and spitting on him.

She then struggled with two police officers and spat at them.

She also admitted that at Dunfermline police station, she assaulted a female custody support officer by kicking her.

Depute fiscal Azrah Yousaf said Sakalauskaite became irate after her partner was using his mobile phone and she suspected he had contacted another female.

She punched him, scratched his face and he went into the bedroom to get away from her, the court was told. She picked up a knife and started striking the door with it “multiple times”, said the depute.

When he opened the door, she threw the knife at him.

The court heard that later, she tried to jump out of a window of the third-floor flat.

Police were contacted and she told officers: “I was fighting with him as he is cheating on me.”

The man had deep scratch marks on his neck and arms and a black eye.

She was arrested and began to spit on one of the officers. She was resisting them, shouting: “I am self-isolating, I have coronavirus.”

She was taken initially to Edinburgh to a COVID-19 custody suite but it was then found she was not self-isolating and she was returned to Dunfermline police station.

She continued to spit in the van and was screaming: “I have coronavirus”, before kicking a custody worker at the station.

Defence solicitor Russel McPhate said: “She had been in a relationship for a year but it all came crashing down around her. She became very upset. It was very horrible behaviour.”

Sheriff Alastair Brown said the conduct would ordinarily bring a prison sentence but pointed out she had not been in trouble before.

He imposed a community payback order with 200 hours of unpaid work.