A Rosyth man has been jailed for assaulting his ex-partner and breaching an order not to contact her.
Christopher Jones, 49, of McGrigor Road, previously pled guilty to the charges and appeared at Dunfermline Sheriff Court for sentencing.
Procurator fiscal depute Amy Robertson told the court Jones twice pushed the woman to the ground in Rosyth’s Hilton Road after she had told him to leave her alone.
He had been crossing the road and shouting out that he loved her moments beforehand, in the early hours of August 28 this year.
The woman was left with a graze to her elbow following the assault
Defence lawyer Christopher Large stressed the breach of a non-harassment order was not premeditated.
He said the pair met each other in a pub and had a verbal altercation but he accepts he should have left sooner.
Sheriff Wylie Robertson pointed the offences were committed only three months after the imposition of the court order and jailed Jones for eight months, imposing a three-year non harassment order.
Fife knife killer
A knife killer stabbed to death a former dock worker who was annoyed with him for hugging his partner. Scott West pled guilty to the culpable homicide of 41-year-old Mark Hacon-Deavin. He stabbed him five times and hit him with a hammer in Glenrothes in July 2021 as a “beef” between them got out of hand.
Smashed tooth from mouth
Fife teenager Jack Milne smashed a tooth from a friend’s mouth with a punch when he asked him to stop arguing with a girl.
The 18-year-old had left the same girl with a black eye four days earlier after striking her in the face in Dunfermline’s Winterthur Lane on October 23 last year.
Procurator fiscal depute Amy Robertson told the court Milne, of the city’s Townhill Road, had been arguing with his victim moments before.
He stormed off and she ran after him and tried to turn him round but he hit her to the face and she fell to the ground.
Ms Robertson told the court four days later, a friend of Milne’s tried to stop him arguing with the same girl and he hit him with an uppercut punch to the right cheek, dislodging his upper incisor tooth, which fell from his mouth.
Milne appeared at Dunfermline Sheriff Court for sentencing after admitting both assaults.
He was given a community payback order with an 18-month supervision requirement as a direct alternative to custody.
Pie Bob’s predator
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‘Do you know who you’re talking to?’
A Methil man threatened to have a relative kill a mother after she yelled at him for drunkenly shouting in the street.
The woman was concerned Daniel Naylor would wake her sleeping toddler when he was making excessive noise late at night.
Fiscal depute Jill Currie told the court: “The witness was at home, having put her two-year-old child to bed.
“She heard the accused shouting and swearing in the street and she shouted out the window to shut up as her child was sleeping.
“The accused started banging on her door, shouting ‘do you know who you’re talking to? I’m Daniel Naylor.”
She said he then threatened to set his mother on the woman, telling her: “My mum’s going through your door when your baby’s in the house.
“My uncle will come and slit your throat – better get the baby out of the house.”
Naylor only stopped when the woman began filming him.
Ms Currie also told the court of a separate incident in which Naylor sent threatening voice messages to a different woman using social media.
Solicitor David Bell, defending, said: “Mr Naylor is extremely apologetic towards her and the police.
“He was heavily intoxicated.
“He completely over-reacted to the telling off for making noise and and said ridiculous things.”
In relation to the phone calls, Mr Bell said there was a pre-existing dispute between the pair.
Naylor, of Wellesley Road, Methil, admitted behaving in a threatening and abusive manner at an address in Fordell Road, Glenrothes on October 29 last year and to making abusive phone calls to a woman on June 12 this year.
Sheriff Elizabeth McFarlane placed him on a one-year supervision order and ordered him to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work.
Heartless housebreaker
Heartless housebreaker James Greenshields preyed on an 80-year-old Kinross widow and stole an “irreplaceable” watch that belonged to her late husband. He plundered thousands of pounds worth of expensive and highly sentimental items during two back-to-back daylight raids in January. He was caught after leaving his mobile phone in one of the properties.
