A convicted sex predator sent vile Christmas messages to a woman he had only been dating for six weeks telling her to “kill herself”.
Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard that Troy Sutherland, 26, turned hostile when the woman ended their brief relationship and asked him to come and pick up his belongings.
A bombardment of chilling messages and phone calls then followed on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day – with Sutherland threatening to “slit” the woman’s throat.
He also told her to kill herself and called her a “fat waste of space”.
During that case, the Peterhead man was described as “extremely nasty” and “manipulative”.
Appearing via video link yesterday, Sutherland pleaded guilty to one charge of sending messages and making telephone calls that were grossly offensive, obscene and menacing between December 22 last year and January 5 this year.
Accused told woman she was ‘waste of oxygen’
Fiscal depute Carol Gammie told the court that Sutherland had only been dating the woman for six weeks before the relationship ended and a series of vile messages began.
She said that during a Christmas Eve telephone conversation about him picking up his possessions from the woman’s home he “immediately became angry” and threatened to “slit her throat”.
“These conversations increasingly became aggressive and threatening,” Ms Gammie said.
“At 5am on Christmas Day the woman received a text message from the accused where he called her a ‘fat pathetic excuse’.
“He also described her as ‘less than nothing’ and a ‘fat waste of oxygen’.
“On January 5 she received further text messages from the accused that turned into another argument and she received a text message which read ‘go kill yourself’.
“The woman felt that this had crossed the line and she contacted the police.”
‘It was not just a one-way street’
Defence agent Grant Daglish told the court that Sutherland accepted that the messages took place but claimed some of the abuse came from his former partner.
“He told me that it was not just a one-way street in terms of the messages sent and the arguments that took place,” Mr Daglish said.
“One message that she sent to him states that she ‘would have a party if he died’.
“That does not excuse Mr Sutherland as 90% of it was from him.”
Sheriff Morag McLaughlin deferred sentence on Sutherland, of Ware Road, Peterhead, in order for a criminal justice social work report and restriction of liberty order assessment to be carried out.
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