An Aberdeen man “smeared foundation” on his former partner’s face and broke her phone in a fit of rage.
Brandon Stevenson, 24, of Jute Street, appeared at the city’s sheriff court yesterday and admitted acting in a threatening and abusive manner by assaulting the woman with a make-up bag, smearing cosmetics on her face and hair, pinning her to a sofa and locking her out of a house.
Fiscal Christie Ward said the first incident happened at 7pm on Saturday, March 30, while his then-partner was getting ready to go out.
She said: “The accused stormed into where she was getting ready, threw her make-up bag at her and attempted to smear foundation on her face.”
The court heard the “very scared” woman called out to other people in the property for help, and they came to her aid.
Ms Ward described a second incident, which happened at 4.50pm on Sunday, July 7.
The fiscal said: “The accused approached her on a sofa, grabbed her by the neck and dug his nail into her neck while holding his forehead to her left tendon.”
Stevenson tried to throw a set of drawers at the woman in an upstairs room, then downstairs he picked up a knife and locked the woman outside. He then kicked her mobile phone up into the air, before it landed on a garden slab.
Defence agent Lynne Bentley said that the two incidents had taken place on “difficult” days for her client.
She said: “The first was on what would have been his mother’s birthday and the second on the date which was two years since her death.”
Sheriff Graham Buchanan said: “This is obviously a very unpleasant matter and a bit shocking to hear.”
He placed Stevenson under supervision for two years and ordered him to complete a rehabilitation programme for domestic abusers.
