A Dundee man with a horrendous list of previous domestic abuse convictions has been placed on curfew for four months for his latest crimes.
Michael Morley was acquitted of rape charges following a trial in September.
However, he was convicted of a pair of domestic offences.
The 41-year-old, of Cullen Place, was found guilty of throwing one woman’s phone to the ground and damaging it and of verbally abusing a second by calling her a “fat whale”.
During the sentencing hearing at the High Court in Glasgow, as well as the restriction of liberty order, he was also made the subject of two non-harassment orders – one for five years and the other for a decade.
Charges not proven
A jury returned not proven verdicts, by majority, on charges of rape levelled against Morley when he stood trial at the High Court in Dundee.
He had denied seven charges in total, including drugging and raping two women in the city and sexually assaulting one of the women and giving her an unknown substance.
Both women who claimed to have been raped said they were given Valium and attacked while they had been unconscious.
The court heard Morley has 10 previous convictions at summary level in England and Scotland.
He was convicted in 2017 of stalking a woman, who was not one of the complainers in this case.
