An Edinburgh sheriff told a joiner he had inflicted a "terrifying ordeal" on his ex-partner after he threw a brick "the size of a small tyre" at her through the window.
Allan Meyer, 39, was sentenced at Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday after committing the reckless crime in Musselburgh earlier this year.
After believing his former partner, Kelly Smith, was having an affair with another man, Meyer hurled the millstone at the window and then proceeded to climb through the smashed glass and into the home.
Kelly Smith and two children were in the bedroom, the court was told.
At his sentencing on Thursday, Sheriff Robert Fife told Meyer that he had put everyone involved through a "horrific experience" and gave him a two-year community pay back order with supervision.
According to the Daily Record, he was also put on a restriction of liberty order for eight months.
The sheriff said: “Frankly that’s not a small item. This was quite clearly a horrific experience.
“You not only threw the millstone through the window but climbed inside. It must have been absolutely terrifying.”
At the previous hearing, fiscal depute Anna Robertson said those inside Kelly’s home in Musselburgh, East Lothian, were left terrified during the 1am incident and the screaming caused Meyer to flee the scene.
Ms Robertson said: “(Kelly) heard a loud smashing noise from her bedroom window.
“She observed the figure of a male around 6ft tall climbing through the window and entering her home.”
Meyer, from Edinburgh’s Restalrig area, was caught after cops recovered blood droplets from the outer window and forensically linked them to him.
During that hearing, defence agent Nigel Beaumont said Meyer had become “enraged” after he believed he heard sexual noises coming from the bedroom.
The court was told the couple had been in a relationship for 15 years.
Sheriff Fife previously issued a two-year non-harassment order against Meyer banning him from approaching or contacting Kelly.
Meyer admitted throwing the millstone through the property’s window on July 20 last year and entering uninvited.
