A domestic thug has been jailed for breaching a strict court order by bombarding his ex-partner with a series of menacing voicemails.
In one of the recordings, Kevin Watt told his former partner: “I will destroy you.”
In 2023, the 40-year-old was banned from speaking to or approaching his ex after he admitted engaging in a course of abusive behaviour towards her over a 16-week period.
Electrician Watt, who once said he drank 12 cans of lager a day, returned to Perth Sheriff Court this week and admitted breaching the non-harassment order.
He was jailed for 11 months.
‘I will f***ing ruin you’
The court heard Watt repeatedly contacted his ex-girlfriend between March 1 and April 20 2023.
In his first voicemail, Watt asked her: “Please call me back.”
The message came from an unknown number but the woman recognised Watt’s voice.
When she did not respond, he followed up with a series of threatening recordings.
“I’m going to destroy you,” he said.
“I’m going to make so much sh**e up about you. I will f***ing ruin you.”
He later told her: “Get me jailed. Do what you want.”
Later that month, the woman went to his home in Perth’s Victoria Street to drop off some of his belongings.
She went into the house and had a cigarette with him.
When he asked to borrow her car and was refused, he got angry and left the property.
The court heard he left several more voicemails, begging his partner to phone him back.
In one he told her: “Away and enjoy your night with your fat pals.”
Later he said: “Out on the pull. You do whatever you want, because that’s what you do.”
‘Why are police at my door?’
After she reported him, Watt left 54 voicemails on her phone between 4.30pm and 11pm, giving her a running commentary of his contact with police.
“What have you contacted police?” he asked.
“Why are police at my door? I can see the meat wagon outside.”
Solicitor Lyndsey Barber, defending, said her client accepted breaching the court order but said both parties had been in contact with each other.
Sheriff William Wood told Watt: “You have a substantial record.
“It may well be that (the complainer) has contributed to this but it is up to you to abide by the terms of the order.”
Watt was jailed for seven months for the breach, plus four months for failing to turn up at a previous court hearing.
The sheriff imposed a new two-year non-harassment order.
Threatened to chop ex’s head off
The court previously heard how Watt had sent his ex a series of chilling texts and voicemails in 2022.
He called her the “biggest tart in Perth” and threatened to chop off her head if she called police.
When she tried to end the relationship, Watt responded by threatening to slit her throat and burn down her house.
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