A former court security guard has been jailed for two years and three months for hitting a prostitute on the head with a hammer.
Daniel Irvine (53), of Ogilvie Street, Dundee, also admitted to sending a string of threatening text messages to his ex-wife in an eight-month campaign of abuse.
Depute fiscal Ross Cargill told Dundee Sheriff Court Irvine had befriended the prostitute, who he had previously known.
He said: ”On October 31 2011, the woman was alone in her flat when she answered the door believing it was her boyfriend. However, she found the accused in the common close.”
Mr Cargill said Irvine entered the flat and the pair got into a heated argument.
”The accused then hit the woman on the head with a hammer which he took from her hand while she was sitting on the settee,” said Mr Cargill.
He said the woman managed to kick the accused before fleeing the flat and hiding in a tenement. She then met a friend who called the police.
Irvine pleaded guilty to assaulting the woman on October 31, striking her on the head with a hammer to her injury and permanent disfigurement.
He further admitted that, between January 1 2011 and August 26 2011, at Ogilvie Street and elsewhere he sent abusive and threatening text messages to his ex-wife.
Sheriff Richard Davidson jailed Irvine for two years for the hammer attack and a further three months for sending the text messages.