A former police officer was today banned from contacting a married woman he stalked and assaulted while having an affair with her.
Fabian Wright, 39, got involved in a relationship with Lynne Davidson after he was released from jail for killing a teenager by driving dangerously on a city street.
The police constable was speeding when he went through a red light near the beach in Aberdeen and crashed into the car Lisa-Marie Wyllie was travelling in.
The 16-year-old was so badly injured that she died following the tragedy in January 2005.
Wright was jailed for five years after he was found guilty of causing her death by driving dangerously on the road in his high performance car while off duty.
He was released from custody in 2008 and he ended up in an “on/off extramarital relationship” with Mrs Davidson who he stalked when she tried to end the affair.
Today Wright was ordered by a sheriff not to contact his victim and sentenced him to a community payback order as his punishment for the offence.
Fiscal depute David Bernard told Aberdeen Sheriff Court during a previous hearing that Mrs Davidson had sought comfort with his client because her husband had been diagnosed with a terminal illness three years earlier.
Mr Davidson had been spending time away from home receiving respire care.
Mr Bernard said: “The complainer describes her relationship with the accused as a turbulent one.
“On various occasions she tried to end the relationship.”
But the court heard that Wright refused to accept that she did not want to see him again. During their time together, he seized her by the throat, pushed her, banged repeatedly on the door of her Banchory home and smashed one of her windows.
He also bombarded her with calls and text messages and referred to her with abusive language.
Wright, of Aberdeen, pled guilty to an amended stalking charge in court last month.
Several parts of the charge were deleted including accusations that he threatened to murder Mrs Davidson and drove close to her vehicle in an intimidating manner.
He also admitted striking the mother on the head while she was out for dinner with a friend at Pizza Express in Aberdeen on May 9, 2015.
The court heard that Mrs Davidson eventually ended the relationship in 2015 but was forced to change her phone number because of all his texts and calls.
On one occasion he called her more than 30 times in the space of just 24 hours.
Yesterday defence lawyer Mike Horsman said: “Clearly it is a serous offence, Mr Wright has no doubt about that.
“And the conduct libelled took place over a lengthy period of time.”
Mr Horsman said his client had no previous convictions of a similar nature and that he had been keen to plead guilty to the offence to spare his victim appearing in court.
Sheriff Alison Stirling queried why Wright had given a different account of the events in background reports prepared for the court.
Mr Horsman said: “I would have to admit that he is perhaps trying to minimise responsibility which is unfortunate because he instructed me fairly early on that he wished to plead guilty for at least some of the charge.”
Fiscal depute David Bernard appealed to the sheriff to consider imposing a non harassment order to help protect the victim.
But the sheriff rejected the motion and told Wright he would be subjected to a requirement as part of his sentence not to contact Mrs Davidson for 12 months instead.
Wright was also ordered to carry out 180 hours of unpaid work as part of the community payback order and was placed under supervision for two years.