A serial domestic abuser who terrorised three different women in Fife, fled from police after being treated in hospital for swallowing a plastic fork.
Reece Morgan, 26, was found guilty of engaging in a course of abusive behaviour against two women and behaving in a threatening or abusive manner to a third.
Dunfermline Sheriff Court heard he fled from two police officers while in handcuffs the day after being arrested for domestic assaults on one of his victims in June last year.
Fiscal depute Laura McManus told the court he fled as he stepped out of a police van upon returning to Dunfermline police station from Victoria Hospital.
He had been taken for treatment the night before, after swallowing part of a plastic fork while in custody.
Ms McManus said Morgan had been admitted to the surgery ward during the night to have the object removed.
The fiscal depute said Morgan was caught at the city’s Carnegie Hall – on the other side of a busy roundabout from the police station – after two officers chased him on foot.
The court heard that Morgan made his escape bid at 7.27am and was put back in the rear of a police vehicle at 7.30am.
He had been arrested and taken into custody the night before for domestic assaults against one of his victims, Ms McManus said.
Domestic abuse
Morgan was convicted this week of severely injuring the woman during a course of violence which included being punched and kicked on her head and body, seized by the throat, and having her finger pulled backwards.
The offending took place at an address in Lochgelly between May 20 and June 17 2022.
Morgan was also found guilty of dragging another woman by her hair, seizing her by the throat, and sending her threatening and abusive messages online.
The abuse took place between June 19 2020 and January 22 2021 at an address in Cowdenbeath and elsewhere.
Morgan demanded that another woman bought him expensive items and pushed his head against hers, at a property in Dunfermline and elsewhere, between December 2 and 15 2020.
He was convicted of shouting and swearing and making derogatory remarks towards all three of his victims.
Before his trial, Morgan admitted a charge of attempting to defeat the ends of justice by running away from two police officers in an attempt to escape from lawful custody, on June 18 last year.
The court heard Morgan has previous analogous convictions.
Sheriff Susan Duff deferred sentence on Morgan until June 12 and he was remanded in custody.
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