Man dumped ex-partner’s belongings at workplace after breakup

A man who put his ex-girlfriend’s belongings into a bin bag and threw them at the door of her workplace has been ordered to perform unpaid work.

Alan Rennie did not take it well when his girlfriend Sophie Gemmell moved out.

Stirling Sheriff Court was told he had called her on her mobile on October 9, shouting and swearing at her so loudly his cursing could be heard by Miss Gemmell’s co-workers in the staff room at the Review hairdresser on Barnton Street, Stirling.

Adrian Fraser, prosecuting, said Miss Gemmell decided that night that their relationship was over.

Three days later she was at work when he parked his car across the road and threw the bag containing her property at the salon door.

When she and a colleague went outside to see what had happened, he drove “at speed” towards her in order to talk to her.

Rennie, 21, of Laurel Court, Denny, pleaded guilty to two charges of using threatening and abusive behaviour. Sheriff Derek O’Carroll ordered him to perform 200 hours of unpaid work as part of a community payback order.