An island man has received a 13 month prison sentence following a series of assaults and incidents of threatening behaviour.
Shaun Macleod of Stornoway admitted four charges in total at Stornoway Sheriff Court including assaulting a woman to the danger of her life in 2015 by compressing her neck and constricting her breathing.
The 39-year-old also pleaded guilty to assaulting a youngster on different dates
over a seven year period by hitting and pinning them against a wall.
He also accepted acting in a course of threatening and abusive behaviour spanning ten years including shouting and swearing, making abusive and threatening comments, threaten to kill himself, throw a chair at a female, throw a can of beer and push her.
Macleod pleaded guilty to making abusive remarks on various occasions between 2014 and 2021, including challenging a young person to a fight, and making threats towards a female.
The case was previously due to be heard in front of a jury in Stornoway last month but Macleod entered a guilty plea to four charges at the last minute.
When Macleod returned to court for sentencing Sheriff Gordon Lamont instructed he should be sent to jail.
Offender jailed over catalogue of physical and verbal abuse
19 September 2024