News / Six months for domestic assault
A FORTY seven year old man from Brae was sent to prison for six months when he appeared from custody before Lerwick Sheriff Court on Wednesday after admitting he assaulted his wife at their home address at 1Hevdaland on 19 December 2010.
Sheriff Graeme Napier told James Pearson that his behaviour had been “absolutely disgraceful” and warned him that should he ever appear again before the court on an assault charge he would jail him for the longest possible period.
Pearson had pled guilty at an earlier court hearing to throwing a bag of refuse at his partner, knocking her to the ground, repeatedly striking and kicking her on her body, grabbing her by the throat and compressing it , all to her injury.
He also pled guilty to behaving in a threatening manner at the same address on the same day.
The court heard how Pearson had come home drunk, started shouting and then launched into a prolonged assault on his partner.
Defence solicitor Gregor Kelly said his client had no recollection of the assault, which happened after he had drunk almost a bottle of vodka with a neighbour.
He added that Pearson had “used his partner as the proverbial punchbag.”
It emerged that Pearson had previous conviction for exactly the same charge.
Sheriff Graeme Napier told Pearson: “It is impossible for me, as a male, to understand the feeling of a female who is assaulted by her partner. This is the second time that you stand before me for assaulting your partner. It is a very serious offence.”
The six month prison sentence was backdated to 21 December, the date Pearson was taken into custody.
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