Inverness man threatened to kill wife’s new boyfriend… and now he’s homeless

A “serial domestic abuser” was banned from approaching his estranged partner for the next three years and the court order made him homeless.

Inverness Sheriff Court was told that 48-year-old Ronald Thomson had threatened to kill his wife’s new boyfriend.

Yesterday he appeared for sentence after admitting behaving in a threatening or abusive manner, striking a door and uttering threats of violence on October 4, in Mackintosh Road, Inverness .

At an earlier court hearing, defence solicitor Marc Dickson said his client and his ex had been together for 16 years and split up three months before the incident.

Sheriff Gordon Fleetwood had deferred sentence for a background report and told Thomson who admitted a long list of previous convictions: “You are a serial domestic abuser.”

When he re-appeared for sentence yesterday the sheriff imposed a three year non-harassment order on Thomson not to approach his ex-wife or her partner and not to enter Mackintosh Road where she lives with him. No other penalty was imposed.

Thomson told the sheriff: “There’s nowhere else I can go my lord.”

The sheriff replied: “Then you are now homeless as a result of your own actions Mr Thomson.”