A Fife man who was given a three and a half year custodial sentence last week for stabbing his brother and leaving him for dead has had another 150 days added to his sentence for an assault on a girl who refused to have sex with him.
Cupar Sheriff Court heard that Noel Barclay, 19, went back to the girl’s house in Tayport, on February 26 2013 in the hope that “something might happen” between them but when the girl declined to have sexual relations with him he grabbed her by the throat and pushed her before going outside armed with a crowbar.
Barclay, a grouse beater, was jailed in the High Court in Perth on March 27 for leaving his younger brother scarred for life after lashing out with an eight-inch knife when he was told off for letting his Labrador off a lead.
Sean Barclay, 23, sustained life threatening injuries following the stabbing and was left bleeding in the street.
Sentence on Barclay’s assault on the girl had been previously deferred to await the outcome of the High Court case and he appeared from custody before Sheriff Charles Macnair on Thursday.
Addressing him, Sheriff Macnair said: “This was a nasty assault which appears to have arisen from the refusal of the complainer to sleep with you.
“She was fully entitled to do that and you were not entitled under any circumstances to use violence against her. You then went out into a public place with a crowbar.”