A man who admitted seizing a woman by the throat and throwing a lit cigarette at her in front of a child has been jailed at Campbeltown Sheriff Court.
Dean Crooks, 36, of 67 Cowal Place, Dunoon, pleaded guilty to assaulting the woman at a Campbeltown address on various occasions between August 1 and August 27 last year.
He also admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive manner at the same address, by repeatedly shouting and swearing, between August 1 and December 27 last year. Procurator fiscal depute Eoin McGinty told the court that on one occasion, when Crooks was under the infiuence of alcohol and the woman asked him to leave, he reacted ‘badly’, shouting and swearing aggressively, throwing a lit cigarette at her.