A man who drunkenly smashed up his house after his pregnant girlfriend returned from hospital without a baby has been fined.
Greg Munro appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court yesterday to be sentenced, having previously admitted acting in a threatening and abusive way on October 27 last year.
The court heard Munro’s girlfriend Kirsty Taylor had believed she was having contractions the previous evening and had asked Munro to accompany her to hospital.
However, he refused, telling her he had plans to go out drinking.
The next morning, having been told it was a false labour, Miss Taylor returned to his home, at 195 Kincorth Circle, to find her boyfriend “heavily under the influence of alcohol” and watching DVDs with a friend.
Fiscal depute Lynzi Souter said this angered Miss Taylor and she pulled the DVD player from the wall.
At that point, Munro lost his temper and started to act aggressively.
He then threw items across the living room as well as swinging the vacuum clearer around the house by its flex.
The court heard that, at the time of the offence, Miss Taylor was eight-and-a-half-months pregnant.
Sheriff Kenneth Stewart originally deferred sentence on Munro for six months to allow him to behave.
Yesterday the Crown told the court that, apart from one unrelated road traffic matter, Munro had complied.
Sheriff Stewart told him his actions towards his former partner that night had been “dreadful”, but accepted he had not offended since.
Munro was fined £200.