A domestic abuser has been warned his attitude must change after he was branded a danger to his wife.
Marius Cioromela from Kirriemuir appeared for sentencing before Sheriff Gregor Murray at Forfar after previously admitting offences including behaving in a threatening manner towards the woman at a house in Ogilvy Place, Arbroath, on October 20 last year, a breach of the peace in The Den, Kirriemuir on June 23 and failing to appear in court on August 6.
Depute fiscal Laura McGillvery said the Crown had investigated the possibility of a non-harassment order to protect Cioromela’s partner but she had indicated she did not want that to be put in place.
Sheriff Gregor Murray told the 40-year-old accused, of Knowehead Crescent, Kirriemuir: “Everything in the social work report suggests to me you are a man who’s dangerous to your wife.
“Everything suggests you’re a man who may well reoffend in relation to your wife.
“It is very clearly indicated that you won’t be able to comply with a supervision requirement, in other words they think you will not be able to do what is needed to focus on your offending.
“I am prepared to put you on a community payback order with a review in a short time,” said the sheriff.
“If your attitude is changing I can then look at placing you on the type of programme that will stop you offending in this way, and make you carry out a very large number of hours of unpaid work.
“If you don’t knuckle down and agree what’s being requested of you, you will be going to jail.”
