A serial domestic abuser who battered his pregnant partner over a month has been jailed for 130 days.
Nathan Riding-Brown (22), of East Port House, Dundee, appeared before Sheriff Marion McDonald in Forfar on Thursday and admitted a catalogue of offences, including physical violence against the young woman, as well as punching a hole in a door.
Riding-Brown pleaded guilty to assaulting her between May 1 and 31 at a house on Carnegy Terrace, Kingsmuir, by repeatedly slapping her on the head and body, repeatedly kicking her on the legs, forcing her arms behind her back, placing his hands around her neck and headbutting her on the face, all to her injury.
Depute fiscal Chris McIntosh said the offences took place on several different dates.
She sought medical help on at least two occasions and police became involved in the matter when the woman revealed to medical staff the cause of her injuries.
Defence agent Bob Bruce said Riding-Brown was now the subject of an interim interdict taken out by his former partner.
Sheriff McDonald told Riding-Brown: ”Domestic violence is frowned upon by the courts in the most severe way and although you have not been in prison before there is no alternative but a custodial sentence.”