A woman has told how she was battered by her lover after refusing to have threesomes with her own pals.
Lesley Jamieson, 24, endured several beatings at the hands of her 57-year-old partner Sinclair Ross after turning down his sexual demands.
Ross repeatedly begged Lesley and her friends to sleep with him when they met up at parties, claiming it was his fantasy.
On one occasion, after she refused to have a threesome he pulled her out bed by her hair and attacked her.
In another, he pinned her against a wall by the throat and kicked her.
Lesley, who dated Ross for two-and-a-half years, summoned up the courage to leave him and reported his abuse to police.
They traced two other previous partners of his and he was convicted and sentenced to 26 months in prison for assaults on the three women.
Lesley, of Tranent, East Lothian, said: “When I first met Sinclair he was very charming and caring.
“There was a big age gap between us but I felt safe and secure with him and we moved in together after only a month.
“However, when he was around my friends and had been drinking he would act in a really sleazy way.
“I was gobsmacked when he first suggested having a threesome with one of my friends.
“He continued to ask me about us having sex with different women but when I refused he would turn violent.
“I was beaten up several times before I left.”
At Inverness Sheriff Court, Ross admitted carrying out a string of assaults on his three ex-girlfriends between 1999 and 2013.
The offences happened at addresses in Inverness and Easter Ross.
Sheriff David Sutherland said only a jail sentence was appropriate.
He told Ross: “These charges involved you in assaults on ladies with whom you had been in relationships with over a considerable period.
“Ladies must be protected from behaviour like this.”
Lesley added: “I am glad he has been sent to prison but I don’t think the sentence is long enough.
“I wanted him off the streets so he couldn’t hurt anyone else.
“I want to warn other women to get out of a relationship at the first hint of trouble, before things have gone too far.
“I’ve been through hell but I know I have come through it and survived.”
