A violent abuser has been branded “a maximum risk to the public” after he threatened to kill his partner and her granny.
Patrick Stewart made the chilling threats towards his girlfriend of eight years after previously storming out to calm down following an argument.
Elgin Sheriff Court heard how the 22-year-old left the property after the woman made a derogatory comment about his late mother on November 29 this year.
Fearing he’d return home drunk and violent his girlfriend locked the door to protect herself and the couple’s young son.
‘I will be a bully’
Fiscal depute Sharon Ralph said: “At around 3pm she heard shouting and swearing through the letterbox. He was calling her a ‘f****** slag’.
“She called him a bully and began filming the incident on her phone.
“He replied: ‘If you open the door I will be a bully inside the door’.
“He stated he was going to kill her and her grandmother. And he continued to bang on the door causing it to rattle loudly.
“She then heard him on the phone to someone stating that he wished for someone to attend at the locus and smash her windows.”
When police officers arrived Stewart had already left, but they were able to view the video footage from his victim’s phone.
Victim fled home with young son
Stewart reappeared at the Kingsmills home again at 5pm, by which time his partner was being supported by a visiting friend.
He made various threats to both of the women and further threatened to harm the friend’s car before his girlfriend and son left the address with the woman, the court heard.
When police re-attended they found Stewart cleaning out a cupboard and were promptly told to “f*** off” before a barrage of abuse ensued.
As they arrested him he made himself a “dead weight”, hurled more abuse and tried to kick one officer on the head.
He also stated he would assault them if they took his handcuffs off. Within custody, he called them “paedophiles, c**** and f****** gay paedophiles”.
“He was kept under constant observation in custody for his belligerent behaviour,” the fiscal added.
Grief threw him off the rails
Stewart appeared via videolink from HMP Inverness and admitted two charges of threatening or abusive behaviour and one of police assault.
Defence agent David Patterson said his client had a “chaotic life” in the past but was doing better since being placed on a community payback order in May this year.
But when his mum died between then and now he turned to alcohol and this was the result.
“He is a young man who clearly had little direction in his life and who was needing support by was of that order,” he added.
“He doesn’t want to be in and out of prison and up until the passing of his mother he was quite content and living a fairly normal life.
“He was clearly quite proud of working hard and being alcohol and drug-free, and as a result offending free.”
Mr Patterson said the argument with his now ex-girlfriend came about after she made a “derogatory comment” about his late mother and that he accepts he “acted in a wholly unacceptable fashion”.
Sheriff David Harvie noted that background reports deemed Stewart, of no fixed abode but currently a prison at HMP Inverness, to be of “maximum risk to the public”.
He refused his bail and Stewart was remanded in custody while a psychiatric report is carried out.
Sentencing was deferred until next month.
