A controlling, abusive boyfriend who would prevented his girlfriend from utilizing the lavatory alone has been jailed for 40 months.
Luke Mackie, 21, subjected NHS nurse Nicole Connor, 23, to nearly a yr of bodily and psychological torment.
Mackie refused to let Ms Connor to make use of the lavatory alone and threatened to kill her household.
He threw her to the ground and would choke her, together with eradicating her automotive keys and cellphone.
Luke Mackie, 21, (pictured) subjected NHS nurse Nicole Connor, 23 to nearly a yr of bodily torment and coercive management
Mackie choked and threw Ms Connor to the ground and wouldn’t let her use the lavatory alone
Nonetheless, when she bravely ended their relationship, Mackie harassed her for 2 months. He adopted her to work and her residence and spammed her with abusive textual content messages and cellphone calls.
He was sentenced to 40 months imprisonment at Dundee Sheriff Courtroom on December 14.
Mackie will even be supervised for an additional 12 months after his launch and has been ordered to not contact or method Ms Connor or his different sufferer for 3 years.
In October, Mackie pleaded responsible at Dundee Sheriff Courtroom to 12 prices, which included coercive management of Ms Connor between October 2020 to July 2021.
Nonetheless he went on to abuse others. He additionally pleaded responsible to 4 prices towards one other girl, two counts of threatening behaviour and possessing cocaine and 4 different assaults – together with an assault on two cops.
Ms Connor advised the Each day File: ‘I am relieved he is behind bars. He cannot simply stroll away and do it to another person – that was my largest concern.
‘He is scum and I’ll by no means forgive him.’
She then went onto to say that she didn’t need his apology.
Nicole’s mom, Michelle, 56, stated Mackie’s jail sentence was one of the best Christmas reward.
Ms Connor was subjected to bodily abuse on the by the hands of her ex-partner Luke Mackie, 21
Ms Connor needed to transfer in together with her mom to really feel protected after her harrowing ordeal. She additionally takes anti-anxiety medicine and sleeping capsules.
Mackie and Ms Connor entered a relationship in October 2020, nonetheless it quickly turned nasty and aggressive.
On one event, he threatened that police would possibly change into concerned.
Mackie then abused one other girl by bashing her on the top and physique at a taxi rank in January 2022, earlier than happening to assault two cops.
A month later at a resort in Edinburgh, the second sufferer was subjected to additional abuse and violence from Mackie.
He went on to level a glass bottle at her neck, waved a boiled kettle at her and tossed her onto the mattress earlier than spitting in her face and refused to let her depart.
Throughout a taxi journey, Mackie hurled insults on the girl earlier than throwing her cellphone onto a tramline and hitting her within the face.
Mike Quick, defending, requested the sheriff to not put Mackie in custody, however quite enroll him on the Caledonian Programme rehabilitation scheme as he believed this was a greater answer for society in the long run than jail.
However Sheriff Murray known as the offences ‘harrowing’ and sentenced him to imprisonment.
