Dundee drug dealer and abuser Hector Duncan receives lengthy prison sentence

DUNDEE DRUG DEALER AND ABUSER HECTOR DUNCAN RECEIVES LENGTHY PRISON SENTENCE

A violent drug dealer convicted of endangering his partner’s life has been hit with an extended sentence after being told by a sheriff he was nearly sent to the high court.

Hector Duncan, 56, subjected the woman to a terrifying assault at an address on Dundee’s Peddie Street.

The victim was choked by frenzied Duncan before being thrown against a wall and punched repeatedly.

A sheriff said the matter was so serious he considered remitting the case to the High Court for potentially stiffer sentencing.

Jurors at Dundee Sheriff Court previously found Duncan, of Adamson Court, guilty of seizing the woman’s throat on March 11 2021, pinning her to a bed, restricting her breathing and throwing her to the ground.

Duncan was convicted of seizing her body, throwing her against a wall and continually punching her repeatedly on the head to her injury and to the danger of her life.

He was also found guilty by a unanimous verdict of dealing heroin on the same date, as well as threatening police officers with violence.

It is Duncan’s third conviction on indictment for drug offences and this, combined with the gravity of the assault, led Sheriff Paul Brown to consider sending the case to Scotland’s highest criminal court.

Despite the sheriff's ultimate decision, Hector Duncan was given a lengthy custodial sentence.

Sheriff Brown ordered Duncan to serve four years in prison with a two-year extension period.

Additionally, he was subjected to a decade-long non-harassment order.

The sheriff acknowledged Duncan's difficulties, health problems, and his attempts to abstain from illicit substances, but emphasized the seriousness of the offences and the offender’s bad record, resulting in the custodial sentence and restraining order.