A row on Christmas Day saw woman branded 'useless' Inverness court is told
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A Christmas Day row marked the beginning of the end of a relationship between a 35-year-old man and his partner.
Inverness Sheriff Court was told that Martin Vojtek, of Rosskill Farm Cottages, Munlochy, shouted at the woman during a family get-together for Christmas dinner in 2013.
Fiscal depute Shamilah Ghafar told Sheriff Gary Aitken that he criticised her in front of her family and called her “useless” and “stupid”.
“Following the breakdown, she moved to Inverness and in May 2015 he went uninvited to her home in Kingsview Terrace,” the fiscal said.
“He was asked to leave, but he became aggressive and abusive at the window.
“On another occasion, he again went to the property and became abusive, shouting at her from outside.
“Later in 2015, she went to her cousin’s house in Maple Drive, Inverness because she did not feel safe and he turned up at the door and was banging on it.
“He was there for 20-25 minutes and he put her in a state of fear and alarm.”
She added that the woman had since died.
Vojtek admitted a course of domestic abuse towards his then partner and was ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid community work.
Sheriff Aitken told him: “This behaviour is entirely unacceptable and there was no excuse.”
