MAN JAILED FOR CHOKING PARTNER WITH DOG LEAD IN KIRKCALDY ATTACK
A man who choked his partner with a dog lead in a brutal domestic attack in Kirkcaldy has been jailed for three years.Callum Ashley, 25, repeatedly kicked his victim to the head during the same incident at a property in Glamis Road last year.
Ashley appeared at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court from custody for sentencing after earlier pleading guilty to the life-endangering assault to injury.
He repeatedly kicked the woman on the head, seized her by the body, wrapped a dog lead around her neck and compressed it.
Prosecutor Annie MacDonald told the court Ashley had been drinking alcohol and made derogatory remarks to her before kicking her head as she sat.
The fiscal depute said: “She called him ‘evil’ and he kicked her to the head again.
“She ran to the bathroom and he followed her and seized her by the body, wrapped a dog lead round her neck and compressed her neck.” The woman phoned police and Ashley left the property.
Officers arrived to find her neck red and swollen and bruising on her arms, the fiscal added.
The court heard, on another occasion, Ashley struck the woman to the back of the head with her phone.
Afterwards she curled up on the floor and used her work phone to call 999.
Sheriff James Williamson told Ashley it was a “catalogue of brutal assaults” on a woman over a short period.
The sheriff described the life-endangering assault charge as “extremely serious.” He noted from a social work report Ashley is involved in martial arts.
Sheriff Williamson jailed Ashley for 36 months, backdated to December 2 last year when he was remanded.
