A thug who made threats to his partner during a break at a Gartmore caravan park this week had a curfew extended.
John Thomson had admitted a charge of behaving in a threatening and abusive manner – aggravated by abuse of a partner or ex-partner - at Trossachs Holiday Park off the A81 in May 2021.
Fiscal depute Ramsay Cunningham told Stirling Sheriff Court on Wednesday the accused and the complainer had been in a relationship for years prior to the incident.
They had arrived at the caravan park on May 3 and shared a cabin while Thomson’s mother and cousin occupied another.
Mr Cunningham said that at 11.45pm on May 2 “persons had been drinking and thereafter returned to the accommodation” adding that “tensions began to arise between the complainer and the accused”.
He said the accused could be heard shouting, and had uttered a threat to stab his partner. A witness then contacted the police. When officers arrived at 12.40am and Thomson was cautioned, he replied: ‘Let’s go.’
Thirty-six-year-old Thomson was thereafter arrested and held in custody for a court appearance.
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His agent told Sheriff Derek Hamilton that his client, of Sandyhills, Glasgow, was currently subject to a four-month restriction of liberty order confining him to his home between the hours of 7pm and 6am.
He asked the court to consider a non-custodial sentence, pointing out that Thomson would be “grateful for any non-custodial disposal”.
Sheriff Hamilton added another six weeks to the existing Restriction of Liberty Order imposed on April 13 this year, making it five months from Wednesday April 27.
