A brute who threatened to "crucify" his partner and nail her to a garden fence has been jailed for 16 months.
Serial offender Alexander Fleming also warned the woman during a phone call from prison that he would "slash her from ear to ear".
Fleming, 24, admitted a course of abusive behaviour towards the woman at her home in Shaw Street, Larkhall, and elsewhere between September 2021 and July this year.
Hamilton Sheriff Court heard that for much of that time he was an inmate at HMP Low Moss in Glasgow.
Alice Carey, prosecuting, said: "The complainer made regular visits to him there and he stayed in contact via a burner phone.
"During one call he threatened to slit her from ear to ear and made other remarks that caused her to be fearful.
"She says he phoned her place of work, telling staff her house was on fire so he could speak to her."
The woman arrived home from a holiday in Turkey to find a barrage of threatening messages from Fleming, including a warning that he had a crossbow and four arrows to shoot her.
He also threatened to "chop her body into tiny pieces and put her in the River Avon".
When Fleming was released from jail she let him into her home to collect his belongings, but he smashed up property and threw her clothes out of a window.
Ms Carey added: "He then phoned her to say he would put a knife in her neck and make sure it came out the other side.
"He would crucify her and nail her to her back fence."
Sheriff Linda Nicolson expressed concern at a letter written by the victim in which she appeared to "completely minimise" what had happened.
Despite the woman's attitude, the Sheriff said a three-year non-harassment order was necessary to protect her from Fleming.
Jailing Fleming, the Sheriff added: "You have a significant record and there are offences against various complainers whom you have been ordered to stay away from.
"You have also been given an opportunity on two occasions to attend a domestic abuse programme.
"All that means, I see no alternative to a custodial sentence."
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