An Irvine woman annoyed neighbours by singing along loudly to an offensive sectarian song - with charges of breaching the terrorism act through displaying a UVF flag dropped.

Debbie Giebler’s lyrics were seen as being supportive of the outlawed Northern Ireland terror group, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).

She belted the song out from her current home in Livingston, West Lothian, two days before “Orangemen’s Day” – an Ulster Protestant festival on the 12th of July also known as “The Glorious Twelfth”.

Livingston Sheriff Court was told that her noisy sectarian celebration didn’t go down well with her neighbours in Norman Rise, in the Dedridge area of the town.

They reported her to the police, who charged Giebler with causing a disturbance by repeatedly playing and singing sectarian songs between Saturday 4 and Friday 10 July last year.

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Officers also charged her with committing an offence under the Terrorism Act by allegedly displaying an Ulster Volunteer Force flag on her home so that it was visible from outside.

When Giebler's case was called at Livingston Sheriff Court on Tuesday she pleaded guilty to behaving in a threatening or abusive manner likely to cause fear or alarm by repeatedly playing and singing a single sectarian song on 10 July. The offence was aggravated by religious prejudice.

A not guilty plea to breaching the Terrorism Act 2000 by displaying a UVF flag in such a way as to arouse reasonable suspicion that she was a member or supporter of a proscribed organisation was accepted by the Crown.

Christine Brownlie, prosecuting, said police were called to Giebler’s home at nine o’clock in the morning. From the street outside they could hear the accused singing along to a song being played in her home.

When she was cautioned and charged by officers she replied: “I’ve never had any bother.”

Giebler, a 43-year-old mother of five and former Greenwood Academy, Dreghorn, pupil did not appear in court but was represented by her lawyer Kevin Dugan. He said she had no previous convictions and no other outstanding cases.

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He said: “I’m told that her family has a tradition of affiliation to the Orange Order and it’s normal for them to celebrate around this time for it falls on the 12th of July.

“She didn’t think she was doing anything wrong but she now accepts it must have caused great offence to anyone listening to that.

“I think her remark to the police officers pretty much summed up her position.”

Giebler, who makes clear her support for Rangers with a "We Are The People" badge on her Facebook page is on benefits, the court was told.

Sheriff Donald Ferguson fined her £400 with a victim surcharge of £20. He allowed her to pay the fine by monthly instalments of £20.

The UVF, a loyalist paramilitary group, was formed in 1966 to combat what it saw as a rise in Irish nationalism adopting the name and symbols of the original UVF, the movement founded in 1912 by Sir Edward Carson to fight against Home Rule.

The UVF murdered more than 500 people in an armed campaign of almost thirty years during the ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland and claimed responsibility for the lives of 33 people in bomb attacks in Dublin and Monaghan in 1974.

The organisation declared that it was renouncing violence in 2007 and two years later decommissioned its weapons.