A FIGHT broke out in front of police in a row about noise, a court has heard.

Mabel Lucy Beese admitted assaulting four people when she appeared before magistrates in Hereford.

Police had been called to an incident in Kington at 9.45pm on December 4, prosecutor Mark Hambling told the court.

But while they were dealing with that incident, they were alerted to a disturbance nearby.

The four victims told police they had been standing outside waiting to be spoken to about the initial incident when 21-year-old Beese, who had been in a friend's flat nearby, had come outside and that there was an exchange of words before she attacked them.

"They were punched in the face, kicked in the back, and hair was pulled," Mr Hambling said.

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Chris Read, for Beese, said a number of police officers had been called to the previous incident and that a large crowd had congregated outside that night.

"She tells me that her friend's children were upset and these four young girls were outside being fairly loud," he said.

"She says her intention was to ask them to quieten down and leave, but accepts that she had been drinking and perhaps her approach was not as diplomatic as it might have been. But she says this was not entirely one-sided and that she was injured too as it turned into a general melee with lots of pushing and shoving.

"It ended as soon as it started as there were plenty of police in the area who ran over and grabbed her."

Beese, of St Gregory's Court, Belmont, was handed a 12-month community order and a one-month curfew. She must pay costs of £135 and a £95 victim surcharge.