PARTNER DRIVES CAR INTO HER HOME AFTER ROW, MAN SENTENCED
A furious partner deliberately drove his partner’s car into her living room window.Joel Smith, 31, appeared at Forfar Sheriff Court to be sentenced, having admitted threatening or abusive behaviour and culpable and reckless driving in Hillside, near Montrose.
On October 10 2024, he admitted he attended the village home uninvited, kicked a wall, threw items around, shouted and swore, took his partner’s car keys and phone to prevent her leaving and made threats.
He also admitted then driving into her living room window.
Smith pled guilty to a third charge of failing to stop at an accident in which he was involved on the A937 later that day.
His solicitor Sarah Russo said: “There can often be some minimisation of the offences.
He does accept this was not an accident.
It was effectively the window frame itself that came out, the window itself was not smashed, it was the frame.” “He was in a state of anxiety.
He’s in a much better place now.” Sheriff Derek Reekie imposed 250 hours of unpaid work, a 90 day 8pm-to-6.30am curfew and three years of supervision, which includes a programme for domestic abusers.
He said: “We’ve met before.
I appreciate from what’s been said you must have been in an agitated state.”
