A jealous man who snapped his ex-partner’s phone in a fit of rage has been placed on a restriction of liberty order.
Robert Glennie, 41, of Dens Road, admitted that on August 28 this year, at Lidl supermarket, Dura Street, he shouted and acted in an aggressive manner towards Kerry Ann McCreery.
He also admitted that in Dura Street on the same day he forcibly removed a mobile phone from her, snapped it and discarded it in a water drain. Fiscal depute Vicki Elder told the court that an argument had begun at Glennie’s house about Ms McCreery having contact with a male friend, so she had left, with Glennie following her.
Glennie later grabbed her mobile phone and smashed it on a wooden fence, snapped it in half and put it in a water drain nearby.
He then followed Ms McCreery into Lidl, and was said to be “towering over her in a threatening manner” and “blocking her movements”.
He was asked to leave the store by staff, but said he would be waiting outside for Ms McCreery, so police were called.
Glennie was subsequently arrested and charged.
Sheriff Alastair Brown told Glennie: “You have no right, in any circumstance, to control a partner’s movements, who she sees, or to intimidate or bully a partner — in private or public.”
Sheriff Brown sentenced Glennie to a three-month restriction of liberty order.
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