A coercive abuser attacked and verbally abused his former partner during a campaign of harassment.
Controlling Gavin Greer also threatened to petrol bomb the home of his victim’s brother as well as bombarding her with abusive calls and messages.
Greer is now facing a prison sentence after he admitted engaging in an abusive course of conduct towards the woman between June 2017 and December 2019 at multiple addresses in Dundee.
The city’s sheriff court heard how electrician Greer, 32, isolated the woman from her friends and family as well as repeatedly demanding to know her whereabouts.
He was caught after sending abusive messages to the woman – as she was being interviewed by police.
Isolated from friends and family
Greer and the woman met through work in January 2016 before the victim became pregnant in November that year.
It was during her difficulties with morning sickness Greer demanded she stop speaking to her friends and family.
Fiscal depute Marie Lyons said: “She couldn’t cope and left her house to go to her brother’s address with the accused following in his car.
“The accused threatened to petrol bomb his house and the house of her friend.
“In July 2017, she split from the accused because she couldn’t take any more of his controlling behaviour.
“He threatened to kill himself but she made the split permanent.
“However, she took him back after feeling guilty.”
Short-lived reconciliation
There were no issues between the pair for several weeks but Greer continued to isolate the woman from her loved ones.
The thug later pinned the woman against a wall and threw parts of a clothes horse at her.
Greer was not charged due to an insufficiency of evidence at the time.
The woman later ended the relationship but was inundated with messages and calls from Greer.
Greer would message the woman first thing in the morning to ask what she was doing and where she was going, as well as making insulting remarks.
Police were eventually contacted following an incident in an Aldi car park, where Greer parked his car alongside the woman’s vehicle and began shouting at her.
He shouted about why the woman would not respond to his communications.
Police saw messages
The woman and her friend went to Maryfield police office to report Greer and during an interview with officers, the lout sent a number of abusive messages, which were seen by officers.
Greer, of Baldovan Terrace, pled guilty to behaving abusively towards his former partner.
Sheriff Paul Brown deferred sentence until next month for social work reports to be prepared.
His bail order was allowed to continue.
