A spurned lover sent threatening and abusive messages to his former partner telling her the “clock is ticking” and she “wouldn’t know what had happened to her”.
Stuart Gray, 37, of St Andrews Street, also told her she should have a long conversation with him as “it may be your last”.
Dundee Sheriff Court heard Gray, who had been in a relationship with Stacey Will, had sent her several threatening messages.
Sheriff Alastair Brown said he wanted to read out some of the messages as it was in the public interest.
He said: “The messages placed before me include one that makes reference to the recipient being isolated.”
Others stated: “The clock is ticking”, “I will never walk away”, “don’t worry you won’t know what’s happened”, “pick-up truck at the end of Tealing Road” and “never gonna walk away”.
An agent said the couple’s arrangements about Gray’s access to his children were being decided in the civil court.
She said Ms Will had stopped contact and he hadn’t seen his children since last Easter.
She told the court: “He moved to Dundee 10 years ago. He had a problem with alcohol and it was supposed to be a fresh start for him.”
She said Gray had a relapse and had been drinking heavily over the course of a few days, which caused the break-up, and he had also been on anti-psychotic medication.
The solicitor added that an alcohol treatment requirement could be investigated through a community payback order. She asked Sheriff Brown to defer sentence for reports and asked for bail.
Gray, a retail assistant at 02 in Dundee, admitted that he sent text messages to Ms Will that were grossly offensive or indecent, obscene or of menacing character, were threatening or intimidating in content and threatened violence to Ms Will and members of her family at St Andrews Street and elsewhere on December 31.
Sheriff Brown said the messages would have caused anxiety to Ms Will and said he would defer sentence for a social work report and a report on an alcohol treatment requirement.
Deferring sentence until February 6, he told Gray his bail order would also have a special condition not to contact Ms Will.
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