A “disgraceful” Dundee thug left a boot mark on the face of a woman he was banned from seeing after repeatedly stamping on her.
Christopher Traynor blamed the woman for stealing tobacco and money from him before brutally attacking her.
The severely injured woman pretended to be unconscious until he left he room.
She then locked herself in the bathroom and phoned police.
When officers arrived outside the multi block, he hurled table legs through a window of the 14th floor flat, striking a marked police vehicle parked outside.
After being taken into custody, Traynor was handed a cup of tea through his cell door hatch by a custody officer, which spilled over both of their hands.
He responded by spitting on the officer.
Traynor was handed a prison sentence for his multiple offences.
The court heard he plans to put an end to his run of custodial sentences when he is liberated by leaving Dundee and emigrating to The Netherlands.
No contact allowed
Traynor, 43, was given a five-year-long non-harassment order at Dundee Sheriff Court in March 2021, preventing him from contacting his former partner.
He was released from prison after assaulting the woman but was on licence until November 11 2022.
However, fiscal depute Lynne Mannion explained to the court the pair were in the Burnside Court flat on April 21 last year.
Traynor accused her of stealing from him, seized her by the hair and body and stamped on her face three or four times.
With a boot-mark on her face and a fracture – later picked up on an X-ray – the woman feigned unconsciousness.
When Traynor left, she locked herself in the bathroom and dialled 999.
Police arrived and while parked outside, Traynor launched two table legs through the window.
Opportunity to leave Dundee
Traynor admitted assaulting the woman to her severe injury, breaching a non-harassment order, culpably and recklessly throwing the table legs and assaulting the custody officer at West Bell Street.
He has been on remand since the day after the vicious domestic assault.
Solicitor James Laverty said an employment opportunity had arisen for his client on the continent, which he intends to take up after he is liberated.
He said: “He has had time to ponder where his life is going and it would appear that an opportunity which had come up after he was released from custody in March 2021 to relocate to The Netherlands has resurfaced.
“His hope is that in dealing with this matter, then he can shake the dust from his shoes and move abroad.
“He’s friendly with an individual who works in The Netherlands.
“If he moves himself from Dundee, it may allow him to make a new start in his life.”
Mr Laverty said his client has “literally no recollection” of committing the offences and believed he was spiked but said that was not a defence.
He added there was no suggestion the table legs were targeted at police.
Sentencing
Sheriff Krista Johnston ordered him to complete 100 days of his unexpired prison sentence and then a further year behind bars after that.
The sheriff also imposed a fresh seven-year non-harassment order.
She said: “You’re of an age where you should know much better than to behave in this disgraceful way.
“The result could have been even worse.”
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