A Western Isles man hit his girlfriend with a cat during a row after he found out she had been unfaithful and was leaving him.
Stornoway Sheriff Court heard that Ryan Macleod left the house at Inaclete Road in Stornoway after the pair had a furious row on the evening of Friday, October 24.
The next morning he returned home and caught her packing her belongings to leave him.
The 23-year-old lost his temper and started shouting and swearing.
He then grabbed the cat and threw it at the unnamed woman.
Procurator fiscal David Teale said that Macleod also threw her packed clothes at her and threw her mobile phone down the stairs.
Lawyer Kevin Macpherson told the court that the incident meant the end of the pair’s relationship.
He said the woman had just returned from holiday with her family and “disclosed she had been unfaithful”.
He said that the cat incident occurred when “she was in the process of leaving and he lost his temper.”
Ryan Macleod, now of 6 North Street, Sandwick, by Stornoway, admitted hitting his ex-partner with a cat as well as threatening her, shouting and swearing at her, throwing her belongings at her as well as throwing her mobile phone away.
Sheriff David Sutherland fined him £300 – reduced from £450 for his early plea.
The sheriff also instructed Macleod to pay £200 compensation to his former partner – to be paid at £30 per week.