A man whose campaign of abuse towards three former partners included tattooing his name onto one against her will has been jailed for four years.
Fraser McBain assaulted the woman at his home in Invertiel Road in Kirkcaldy by pushing her into a chair, holding her there by the body and using a tattoo gun to inscribe his name onto her body.
The attack, between January and March 2013, left his partner injured and permanently disfigured.
It was one a series of domestically aggravated assaults of which a jury found the 46-year-old guilty last month.
Having faced seven charges – some dating back more than 20 years – jurors agreed McBain was guilty of six.
He returned to Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court for sentencing this week.
Caged
Sheriff Alison McKay was presented with a testimonial letter from McBain’s employers.
His solicitor Alan Jackson said: “On the face of it, there are positives in this man’s life.
“He’s been a good contributor to society in terms of working, bringing up children and now recently caring for his parents.
“The offences are very serious.
“He knows the court’s first port of call will be custody.
“It’s no surprise that he denies the offence.”
Sheriff McKay jailed McBain for four years, saying choking one victim and tattooing another would each alone cross the custody threshold and cumulatively, imprisonment was “inevitable.”
First partner choked to unconsciousness
The jury agreed that on one occasion in the winter of 2001/ 02, McBain assaulted his then-partner by seizing her by the neck, shouting at her and putting his arm around her throat and tightening it, restricting the woman’s breathing.
The attack, which took place at Hayfield Road in Kirkcaldy, rendered the woman unconscious and caused her to fall to the ground.
McBain then repeatedly kicked her on the body and made threats of more violence towards her.
The woman was left injured.
Second woman assaulted
A second partner was also abused by McBain in 2007.
In January that year, he assaulted her at a flat in the Kirkcaldy’s Pratt Street by seizing her by the head and pushing it against a cupboard door.
On another occasion in early 2007, he attacked the woman at a cottage just outside Kirkcaldy by repeatedly pushing her on the body, causing her to fall to the ground and strike her head against the ground.
That summer, while also at the cottage, he assaulted the woman a third time by slapping her face so hard that she fell to the ground.
He then seized her by her lapels and threw her across the room, causing her to crash into wooden furniture.
He threw her against a shoe rack and seized her again.
The woman’s injuries were agreed to be “severe.”
Third victim tattooed
McBain’s tattoo victim – another then-partner – was assaulted in 2013.
As well as horrifically scarring her, he also attacked her at the town’s Asda that summer by punching her on the head, injuring her, and threatening more violence.
An allegation he pushed her down the stairs while she was holding an infant were found to be not proven by the majority of jurors – the only charge of which he was not convicted.
McBain denied all the charges and gave evidence himself at his trial.
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