Convicted abuser bidding to have his sentence reduced

A Dundee man who carried out a four-and-a-half-year campaign of domestic abuse against his girlfriend is appealing his jail sentence.

Kenneth Macmillan, 42, was locked up for 20 months for “repeated physical verbal and psychological abuse” of Shiree Afzal at properties in Dundee, Paisley and Erskine.

His solicitor, Terry Gallanagh, asked for Macmillan to be handed a community payback order instead of jail as he was remorseful and regretted his actions, but Sheriff Pettigrew said a prison sentence was the only “appropriate disposal”.

Macmillan will try to have the length of his stay behind bars reduced at the High Court of Appeal in Edinburgh on April 26.