A man brutally attacked his girlfriend and threatened to “rip out” her unborn baby within an hour of having a court ban on seeing her lifted.
Stephen Gibb was today detained for over two years after being told his attitude to women “should have died out in the 1500s”.
Gibb launched the vicious attack because he claimed the woman had “smiled at a man who approached her in the street”.
Gibb later attacked his own mother, threatened to kill her if she phoned police, booted a policeman and then hurled anti-English slurs at him following the attack on his partner.
Gibb had gone to court on June 2 in a bid to have bail conditions banning him from seeing girlfriend Rebecca Hewitt lifted. They had been imposed over a threatening and abusive behaviour charge for which Gibb was later handed a six-month jail sentence.
The thug left Forfar Sheriff Court having had the conditions removed and met Miss Hewitt outside before heading to catch a bus to Brechin.
But he immediately launched an angry tirade at his partner after seeing her speaking to another male and “smiling” at him.
Incredibly, violent Gibb tried to blame his victims for the attacks and claimed his mother had in fact attacked him.
Describing the attack on Ms Hewitt, fiscal depute Susan Ruta told Dundee Sheriff Court: “He grabbed her and pinned her against a wall. He had one hand around her neck and began squeezing, telling her to stop crying.
“She started to scream hysterically and asked for help. He removed his hand and placed it across her mouth then pressed the rim of a bottle into her throat, forcefully pushing it into her neck.
“He then said he would rip her unborn baby out of her.”
He then grabbed and threatened his own mother when she tried to intervene.
Gibb, 20, a prisoner at HMP YOI Polmont, pleaded guilty on indictment to assaulting Rebecca Hewitt to her injury, assaulting Shirley Duthie and assaulting PC Jack Swindells on June 2 this year in Forfar and Brechin.
Defence solicitor Nick Markowski said: “He turns 21 tomorrow and will be celebrating, if that’s the right word, a major birthday behind bars.
“He was on medication that was not supposed to be mixed with alcohol – but he drank a significant amount of alcohol and became angry.
“He accepts a custodial sentence is inevitable.”
Sheriff Alastair Brown jailed Gibb for a total of two years and two months.
He said: “Men who behave in this way, who act with extreme anger, violence, or threats of violence with no basis can’t expect the court to deal with them with any sympathy.
“If ever there was a time for the attitudes you manifested towards this woman, that ended in about 1500AD.
“It is absolutely unacceptable for anyone to behave in this way.”
