A possessive fiance unleashed a tirade of verbal abuse on his partner after she told him she was going to a conference for work.
Peter Macleod yesterday admitted sending grossly offensive texts of a menacing character, uttering threats of violence and hitting the woman’s legs with his car seat.
Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard that Macleod had been in a relationship with the woman for a year-and-a-half and that they were engaged.
But a row broke out after the woman’s boss asked her to go to a work conference in London in January.
Fiscal depute Christie Ward said: “She agreed but the accused told her not to go, and to tell her manager she had lost her passport.”
The woman flew out regardless on January 23, and subsequently received a number of threatening messages from Macleod.
She was accused of being drunk, and branded a “lying cow” when he couldn’t get hold of her.
He then called her before she boarded her flight home and demanded to speak to one of her colleagues, who assured him that she had not been drinking.
Ms Ward told the court the woman was “crying and fearful of what awaited her at home.”
The court heard Macleod, of Balnagask Crescent in Aberdeen, was waiting for the group at the airport and “marched” towards baggage reclaim before getting “up on the face” of one of his fiancee’s colleagues.
A member of security staff told the 27-year-old to leave, and on his way out he threw his engagement ring on the ground.
Macleod and his partner then got into his brother’s car and he slid the front seat against her legs before “screaming incoherently” and asking if the there was a knife or a gun in the car.
The incident happened on January 31, and the woman went to the police the next day. She also ended the relationship.
Defence agent Lynne Freeland told the court her client struggled with mental health, and said there was no contact between the pair anymore.
Sheriff Graham Buchanan said the case “rang alarm bells” and asked for supplementary reports before he sentencing.
He added: “This is very strange and concerning behaviour.”
Macleod was released on bail and will be sentenced in June.
