A jealous ex who hated the fact his former girlfriend had found a new partner bombarded her with murder threats and turned up at her door in the middle of the night.
Ryan Craib called the woman 57 times in the space of one hour after he suspected she might be with her new partner.
In one of 12 voicemails the 33-year-old threatened: “I swear on my mother’s f****** grave there’s going to be a murder.”
Fiscal depute Eabha Sweeney told Aberdeen Sheriff Court that the pair had been in a relationship for 17 months but that it ended in December 2021.
Then on the evening of August 31 last year Craib began calling the woman multiple times asking if he could come round to her Great Northern Road home.
‘I will put your door in’
When she told him not to come around as he was “too irate” he then said he’d “kick the door in and attack anyone else who was within”.
Ms Sweeney said: “A short time later he sent her a text message saying he was en route then between 10pm and 11pm she received numerous phone calls from a withheld number, which she believed to be the accused.
“In total, she received 57 calls and 12 voicemails. She listened to each one and identified the accused’s voice. The context of each was similar – threatening and abusive.”
Within those voicemails, he threatened: “I will put your door in. I will pump up the stairs. Tyson will f****** bark and you will have to let me in.
“I hope your boyfriend is listening I’m going to kick his head in.
“I’m going to shout and scream until you open your f****** door and let me see there’s nae c*** in the house and if there is there’s going to be a murder.
“I swear on my mother’s f****** grave there’s going to be a murder.”
Fled when police were called
Craib’s ex later saw him outside her house and she locked her door. But at 1.20am he returned again, this time demanding to be let in.
He shouted: “Who is in there? If it’s that guy I’m going to kill you.”
When she warned him police were on the way he fled but was later traced and arrested by officers.
Craib pled guilty to a charge of domestic abuse.
Defence agent Paul Barnett said his client had suffered foetal alcohol syndrome in the womb, being born to two alcoholic parents, and had “an emotionally deprived childhood”.
“He has difficulty managing emotions,” Mr Barnett added.
“On the evening in question, he was heavily under the influence. He suspected she had another male at the property and thereafter things escalated and he repeatedly got in touch with her and so on.”
The court heard the pair are now back in a relationship.
Sheriff Margaret Hodge placed Craib, of Fraser Court, Aberdeen, on a one-year supervision order.
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