A man who told a Polish national that “Hitler should have done his job properly” has been jailed for three months at Dundee Sheriff Court.
Darren Tosh (36), of North Erskine Street, previously admitted he had sent grossly offensive messages to his ex-partner. Sheriff George Way branded him an “outrage”.
Depute fiscal Eilidh Robertson told the court that Tosh and the woman had been in a relationship which had broken down, but Tosh still owed his ex-partner money.
She said: “The complainer sent a message asking when she could have her money back and he sent a message back saying that Hitler should have done his job properly.”
The court heard that he sent another message saying: “You look like an East German shot-putter before the wall came down. Your face is all make-up and in the morning you look terrible. Is your name Ivan by any chance?”
Tosh’s solicitor Jim Caird said: “You’ve heard one half of a dialogue between a couple who were splitting up and who were both very nasty to each other.”
Tosh had previously admitted that on August 9, on Park Avenue, he sent messages to his former partner that were grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character and he made threats and committed the offence while on bail and while subject to an undertaking to appear at Aberdeen Sheriff Court.
Sentencing Tosh to three months in prison, Sheriff George Way said: “Millions were slaughtered by Adolf Hitler and millions of Poles were taken into the woods and shot in the head.
“You are an outrage and this society casts you out.”