Grangemouth domestic offender punched his partner in front of her mother
A serial domestic offender called his partner a “lazy cow” when her mum ask him to put away the dishes.
Reece Grady, 22, then proceed to hurl more abuse at the woman and then punched her head repeatedly in front of her mother.
Grady appeared at Falkirk Sheriff Court last Thursday having admitted assaulting a woman – punching her on the head repeatedly – and threatening behaviour at an address in Jessfield Place, Bo’ness on July 8.
The procurator fiscal depute said: “The couple had been in a relationship for eight or nine years before this incident. A year before this the relationship had come to an end and they were living in separate addresses.
"The complainer had been picked up by her mother and taken to her mother’s address, where the accused was also staying on the day. When the complainer arrived she noted the accused he had been drinking alcohol and during the course of the afternoon he continued to drink alcohol.
"At 5.40pm the complainer’s mother asked him to put the dishes away after dinner and he shouted at the complainer, saying she was lazy, adding ‘you do nothing but sit on your behind’ and saying she was a ‘lazy cow’.
"The mother suggested he got out for a walk and try to calm down. He then called the complainer ‘morbidly obese’ and words to that effect in her face. He then punched her in the face in front of her mother.
"He later told police ‘the whole situation started with her punching me’.”
Billy Hendry, defence solicitor, said: “He has repeatedly expressed his remorse and his understanding about the consequences to his victim. What he did was unacceptable.
"On that day he had been consuming alcohol and hadn’t been taking his medication.”
The court heard it was Grady’s third domestic offence conviction.
Sheriff Craig Harris said: “These are offences of a domestic abuse while you were subject to a community payback order with a Caledonian domestic abuse programmed requirement.
"The court is fast running out of options to deal with you. The next option is prison.”
He placed Grady, 42 Charlotte Dundas Court, Grangemouth, on a community payback order with the condition he completes 140 hours of unpaid work within 12 months.