A heinous domestic abuser from Fife left his partner with a fractured back in a horrific attack and then told her he loved her.
Alan Ogilvie was subject to special bail conditions aimed at protecting his partner of a decade but he struck on the night of November 19 last year.
He launched a sustained attack on the woman as she came home late in the evening, including jumping on her back.
Ogilvie’s solicitor told Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court he could not penetrate the 45-year-old coal merchant’s psyche as the HMP Perth inmate still claimed to love his victim.
He was jailed for 20 months.
Terrifying attack
Fiscal depute Lee Corr told the court Ogilvie was overheard by neighbours in Kirkcaldy assaulting the woman at 9pm on November 19 2023.
He grabbed her, pushed her to the ground and punched her left eye.
His victim asked: “What are you doing that for,” and Ogilvie replied: “Because that’s what you deserve.”
He told her: “I only gave you a wee slap” and the woman said it was “one slap too many.”
Ogilvie grabbed her by her jacket and hair and threw her against a wall.
She fell to the ground and Ogilvie tried to bend her leg and then sat on her back, restricting her breathing.
She screamed for him to get off but he remained for another five seconds before slumping against the front door, crying and bleating: “What am I doing?”
He told the woman he loved her and she informed him “this wasn’t love” so he grabbed and punched her again, before jumping on her back.
The woman tried to defend herself by biting Ogilvie’s finger and he put her in a headlock, then tried to headbutt her.
Ogilvie again slumped against the front door and she was not able to lift herself from the floor until an hour had passed.
Just after 6am, as Ogilvie slept, she sneaked from the house and walked to Victoria Hospital.
She was bruised on her left eye, right wrist and back.
A CT scan showed she had a fracture on her vertebrae, which would take six weeks to heal.
The fracture was moved back into position and she was discharged with pain relief.
Police arrested Ogilvie before 9.30am and he has been on remand since.
‘Still in love’
Ogilvie pled guilty to assault to severe injury and breaching a special condition imposed at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court in September 18 last year.
Mr Corr explained that in 2018, Ogilvie was convicted of domestically-aggravated threatening or abusive behaviour towards the same woman.
The court also heard he has previously served a three-month prison sentence.
His solicitor Joe Mooney said Ogilvie – a coal merchant who works in Thornton – normally lives in Buckhaven with his mother.
He said: “She quite rightly said his behaviour could not be seen as indicative of love.
“He hangs onto that. He’s still in love with the complainer. That’s what he says to me.
“The background to most of this had been, I think, the relationship was quite good but Mr Ogilvie took drink and that led to argument – that’s gone beyond an argument.”
“I struggle to penetrate into his psyche about why we’ve got to this from someone who has no previous convictions for assault and no previous convictions on indictment.
“I’m not saying he’s an angel.”
Jailed
Sheriff Robert More jailed Ogilvie, who appeared by a video link from prison, for 20 months.
He also imposed a three year non-harassment order.
The sheriff pointed out had Ogilvie had a record for violence, the sentence would have been longer.
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