A former Scots football scholarship starlet who subjected his girlfriend to a course of controlling domestic abuse that lasted nearly seven months has been spared jail after a sheriff heard how injury had ended his hopes of a career in the game and left him with mental and physical "issues".
Calvin Gray, 25, whom a court was told trained with Valencia and Villarreal as well as Dunfermline FC, became "insecure and jealous" during his relationship with 24-year-old Emerald Jeffrey.
He "constantly" checked up on her, repeatedly looked through her mobile phone, and repeatedly accused her of speaking to other men.
