A young islander was scared to return to the Scottish mainland after her ex-fiance made threats about acid being thrown in her face.
Rebecca Laidlaw, 22, told a court her former partner phoned her on her mobile at 6.18am when she was at her parents home in Shetland, more than two months after the end of their two-and-a-half year relationship.
By then she had a new boyfriend, and her ex, Craig Burgoyne, 26, was “obviously upset and very angry” when he called.
She told Stirling Sheriff Court: “Craig said he was coming up to Shetland and somebody would throw acid in my face for being so vain.”
The employment coach with Skills Development Scotland, said she had earlier been woken by her new boyfriend Jason Henry, who came round to her parents’ home around 5am and warned her that messages they had sent each other privately had been posted on her Facebook pages.
The court was told the process of taking over someone’s Facebook and using it in such a way was known as “being Fraped” and that the messages she had exchanged with ambulance care assistant Mr Henry were “intimate and quite sexual in content”.
Miss Laidlaw said Burgoyne, of Stirling, knew her e-mail address, password, and other details to access her Facebook account.
She said: “Details of my relationship with Jason Henry had been placed on Facebook. It was a conversation between me and Jason.
“They were very private. I was embarrassed, humiliated, and upset.”
Miss Laidlaw said when Burgoyne phoned and mentioned acid being thrown, she was “upset, shocked, and surprised that he would go that far”.
She said: “I was quite scared.
“I feel quite lucky to be on a separate island, there’s a kind of security I get from being on Shetland.
“If I do visit the mainland now I make surprise visits I don’t tell anybody before I get there.”
Defence solicitor Frazer McCready asked her: “This is something known as being ‘Fraped’?”
Miss Laidlaw replied: “Yes.”
She said that Burgoyne went on to phone her another 26 times before 9.30am.
She said she and Burgoyne had formerly lived at Alloa in Clackmannanshire, and Auchenbowie, near Stirling.
Mr Henry told the court he overheard the phone call from Burgoyne.
Burgoyne, of Auchenbowie Farm, Stirling, denies a charge of stalking Miss Laidlaw, causing her fear and alarm, between August 1 and October 14 last year.
The trial is due to continue on September 22.