A WOMAN was pulled from her car after agreeing to have a meeting with her former partner in Rosyth.

The early-morning meeting at a filling station ended with the woman’s car window being smashed and her being knocked to the ground as Stephen Hepburn demanded to see her phone.

It was the culmination of a week of abusive behaviour after the woman ended their relationship.

Hepburn, 44, of Main Street, Crook of Devon, appeared in the dock at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.

He admitted that between January 22-30 last year, at addresses in Rosyth, Crombie, Culross and the Shell Filling Station, Admiralty Road, Rosyth, he engaged in a course of conduct which caused his ex-partner fear or alarm.

He sent her messages repeatedly and phoned her, he attended at her home in Rosyth and monitored her movements. He parked in front of her car to prevent her leaving, demanded to see her mobile phone, caused damage to the window of her car, unlocked the car, seized her body and pulled her out of the car, causing her to fall to the ground.

Depute fiscal Lee-Anne Hannan said the couple had been in a six-month relationship which ended in January last year.

The woman ended it but Hepburn did not accept it was over at that time.

On January 30, they had arranged to meet up at the Shell fuel station in Admiralty Road to speak face to face and this took place at 7.15am.

When Hepburn arrived, he was demanding to see her phone but she refused and put her car window back up.

Hepburn then pulled at the window, smashing it. He unlocked her car door and grabbed the woman, pulling her out of the vehicle and causing her to fall.

Hepburn was looking for the phone in her car, standing over the woman, before a witness intervened and pulled him away.

Defence solicitor Chris Sneddon said his client accepted responsibility for the crime, which occurred against the background of a relationship ending.

Sheriff James Macdonald imposed a community payback order with 90 hours of unpaid work.