A WOMAN attacked the home of her partner’s new lover, a court was told.

Rhona Shepherd, of Knaresborough Drive in Fartown, smashed Malgorzara Kulka’s patio door while she watched in horror from her upstairs window.

The 37-year-old was heard shouting threats to Ms Kulka before storming into the Bradley house.

Huddersfield magistrates were told that Shepherd went to the Elder Road property at 7pm on September 11.

Linda Fowler, prosecuting, said that Ms Kulka had just returned home from work when she heard her garden gate being opened.

She said: “As this happened she heard ‘where is she, I’m going to kill her!’

“She recognised the voice and ran upstairs with her stepdaughter.

“She looked out of the bedroom window and saw Shepherd in the garden outside the patio doors.

“She then heard a loud smash and then her walking upstairs, again shouting ‘where is she’.

“The complainant called police, went downstairs and saw that the rear patio door had been smashed.”

Shepherd admitted the attack, although claimed that she had drunk a full case of Fosters lager and had no real memory of going to the house.

Magistrates were told that she had been on a conditional discharge by magistrates following offences in Denbigh, Wales, on January 9 last year.

On that date police responded to concerns that Shepherd was trying to kill herself and found her hands covered in blood.

As she was taken to an ambulance she screamed and shouted at onlookers and officers and later smeared her police cell in blood, which then had to be decontaminated,

Shepherd said she had been drunk during both sets of offences.

She told the court that she had damaged Ms Kulka’s patio door because she had been bothering her with phone calls and text messages.

Shepherd told magistrates: “I used to be an alcoholic, but now when I get down I binge drink.

“I had been angry because of this person.

“I had been with my partner for 15 years and she cheated behind my back with him for six months.

“I moved away to get away from it all but she kept sending messages and making phone calls which got to me.”

Magistrates gave Shepherd a 12-month community order.