A thug from Dundee has been convicted of injuring his partner by striking her over the head.
Jurors returned a guilty verdict after a day-long trial at Forfar Sheriff Court last week.
However, they unanimously agreed Daniel Mudie’s assault was not domestically aggravated.
Mudie was previously jailed for offences committed against former partners including one attack a sheriff likened to “a pack animal asserting dominance” but had his sentence replaced with unpaid work just weeks later.
He will be sentenced for his latest crime in June, when reports have been prepared.
Trial
The jury of six men and nine women found the 41-year-old guilty of assaulting his partner at Helmsdale Place in Dundee on July 3 2021 by striking her on the head to her injury.
The verdict came with significant deletions to the charge, including clearing Mudie of allegations he seized, punched, kicked and threatened the woman.
Mudie’s victim gave evidence remotely by video link.
The court heard he was sober and his partner was drunk when the incident began in a car in Kirkton.
Mudie’s lawyer John Boyle said his client accepted striking her on the head and throwing her shoes.
After the verdict, Mr Boyle said: “There’s no other matters outstanding.
“He’s been of good behaviour since this event in 2021.”
Sheriff Krista Johnston continued Mudie’s bail and said: “I will require a report before dealing with the accused.”
History of offending
In 2018, Mudie was locked up for four and a half years for subjecting two former partners to horrific abuse.
He choked one woman until she fell unconscious in an attack a sheriff described as being “reminiscent of a pack animal asserting dominance”.
In another incident the second woman, then pregnant, was repeatedly spat upon by Mudie, who then pushed her over, causing her to fall on her stomach.
However, he spent only weeks behind bars after appealing the sentence, which sparked fury from the Women’s Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre in Dundee.
The Court of Criminal Appeal quashed the sentence and imposed two years’ supervision and 200 hours of unpaid work to be completed in a year instead.
One of his victims told The Evening Telegraph she was “not going to let him win.”
In an interview, Mudie himself said: “I am so sorry for what I did. It will haunt me for the rest of my life.”
Two years before that, he stole £500 worth of diamond rings from a sheltered housing complex in Dundee, where he was working as a roofer.
For this, he was placed under supervision for a year.
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