Serial Domestic Abuser Avoids Jail for Assaulting Partner in Dundee

SERIAL DOMESTIC ABUSER AVOIDS JAIL FOR ASSAULTING PARTNER IN DUNDEE

A serial domestic abuser has narrowly avoided a jail sentence after he admitted to compressing his partner’s neck.

Andrew Brennan, aged 33, was given a two-year supervision order following his guilty plea to domestically aggravated assault at Dundee Sheriff Court.

Brennan has prior convictions for domestic assault and was previously jailed for punching a woman in the face during a drunken attack in 2019.

According to depute fiscal Calum Brown, the incident occurred during a night out on March 10, when Brennan assaulted his partner by seizing her by the neck, applying pressure, then kicking her at an address in Dundee.

Despite the seriousness of the charge — seizing her by the neck — Sheriff Jillian Martin-Brown sentenced Brennan to 140 hours of unpaid work and a two-year supervision under the Caledonia scheme, with a review scheduled for June.

The court noted that given the nature of the assault, a custodial sentence would normally be considered appropriate, but an alternative was found based on the criminal and social work report.

Brennan's criminal history includes a 2019 conviction for grabbing a woman by the hair, repeatedly punching her, biting her, and pressing on her injuries in Brechin, plus another incident where he punched, kicked, and threw a woman against a wall in Arbroath, causing a severe head injury, resulting in a 28-month jail sentence.