A jilted man who had been drinking heavily took out a hatchet when his ex-partner tried to collect her things from his house in Pitlochry.
Alexander Cullens took the break-up badly so he hit the booze then barricaded himself in his house before taking hold of the hatchet when the woman came to get her belongings.
The 31-year-old was out drinking with the woman at the Coach House bar and grill in the town’s Atholl Road when she told him she no longer wanted to be in a relationship with him.
