TEENAGER ADMITS CAMPAIGN OF ABUSE AGAINST HIS EX GIRLFRIEND
A Montrose boyfriend has admitted attacking his ex on holiday in Aviemore and outside a Dundee pub on Hogmanay.
Teenager Benjamin Gilyeat appeared at Forfar Sheriff Court to admit a campaign of domestic abuse between November 2023 and January 2024.
This included pinning his partner to a bed and shouting at her while on holiday in the Highland town.
It also included offending outside Captain’s Cabin in Dundee on December 31 last year, where he dragged her from the premises, shouted and swore at her, referred to her in a derogatory way, grabbed her by the throat and pulled off her false eyelashes.
The 19-year-old, of Wittenberg Gardens also loitered outside the woman’s home, shouted at her and threatened her, including by text.
Solicitor Nick Markowski said the first offender has diagnoses of autism and ADHD.
