A WOMAN from Malvern punched her ex-boyfriend and his new partner after their relationship ended.

Amy Woodcock, aged 31, of Lavender Walk, Malvern, admitted two charges of assault at Worcester Magistrates’ Court on Monday.

The victims, Simon Cowell and Sarah Stowe, were attacked at their home on June 29.

Woodcock also admitted harassing Mr Cowell between June 13 and June 29 after leaving threatening Facebook messages and the theft of his mobile phone SIM card on June 13.

Jackie Rogers, prosecuting, said Woodock and Mr Cowell were in a two-month relationship which began last October. After it ended both stayed in touch because their children got on well together. However, things changed when Mr Cowell began a relationship with Miss Stowe.

On June 13 she called at Mr Cowell’s home, and asked if she could use his mobile phone because she had lost her own.

When she handed him the phone back he realised the SIM card was missing but she refused to return it.

Miss Rogers said: “He became angry with her and she was asked to give the SIM card back and to leave.”

The card was never recovered and she later said she had destroyed it. The harassment involved the defendant “posting various threatening and abusive messages” to Mr Cowell and Miss Stowe on Facebook. Ten messages were posted between June 13 and June 29. On June 29 Woodcock again called at Mr Cowell’s address.

Mrs Rogers said: “Miss Stowe opened the door and immediately she was confronted by the defendant who punched her to the left eye.”

During the assault Miss Stowe was also grabbed by the hair, “pulling some of it out”. She also sustained scratches to her arm where Woodcock had dug in her nails and was punched a second time, Mrs Rogers said. Mr Cowell then came downstairs, standing between the two women, and he was also punched but did not sustain injury.

Miss Stowe suffered “discomfort and pain” from being punched as well as being scratched on her arm.

Kate Oliver, defending, said: “She accepts full responsibility for her behaviour and this set of offences at the time. She is remorseful for her behaviour.”

There had been no contact since the incident.

District judge Nigel Cadbury ordered Woodcock to be made the subject of a community order for nine months and to complete “a specified activity requirement”.

He also ordered that Woodcock must not contact either party and ordered her to pay costs of £85 and a victim surcharge of £60.