A Dunfermline man, already serving a jail term for biting off part of his former partner’s lip, has had another six months added for a previous attack on the woman he had met through a dating website.
Last December, David Booth, 54, of Chalmers Street, had a six-month community payback order (CPO) imposed for brandishing a knife at his ex-partner Catherine Byrne in Moodiesburn.
During the incident on July 22 2014, Booth shouted, swore and made threats to Ms Byrne, placing her in a state of fear and alarm.
As part of the CPO imposed at Airdrie Sheriff Court, Booth was ordered to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work, but within days he had launched a vicious assault on Ms Byrne in a Glasgow pub.
He became jealous after seeing her talking to another man, bit off part of her lip and spat it out on the floor.
Last month at Glasgow Sheriff Court, he was jailed for 27 months after admitting biting Ms Byrne’s lower lip to her severe injury, permanent disfigurement and permanent impairment at the Storm Queen pub on January 2.
Sheriff Ian Miller told him: “It was a single horrible and repellent act.”
He also placed Booth on a non-harassment order for three years meaning he cannot contact or attempt to contact Ms Byrne during that time.
The court heard that Booth and Ms Byrne met on a dating website and had been in a relationship for around a year before she ended it due to him constantly attempting to monitor her movements.
Ms Byrne underwent surgery the following day to reconstruct her lip but her speech is still partially affected and she suffers numbness in her lip.
Booth was back in the dock at Dunfermline Sheriff Court on Wednesday over the earlier incident.
The CPO was revoked and in its place Sheriff Charles Macnair imposed a six-month jail sentence to run consecutively to his current term.