A moody dad smashed up his own bedroom furniture after his wife moaned about his drinking, a court heard.
Mark Lewis, 29, lost the plot when his wife Amy told him she was tired of his boozing and he went upstairs and punched their bedroom mirror causing it to break.
Lewis, a qualified structural engineer, had been drinking in the back garden of the property in the town’s Whitehaugh Avenue on June 12, last year, when he told her he was thinking of leaving her, prompting Ms Lewis’ remarks about his drinking.
Procurator fiscal depute Iain Mathieson told Paisley Sheriff Court on Wednesday : “The accused and the witness who have been in a relationship for ten years, were at the address, where they resided together.
“On the evening of the date involved, both were in the garden drinking socially.
“During this time the accused said to the witness there was ‘no point in this relationship.’
“This confused the witness. She told him he needed help with his alcoholism and if he did not see any point in their relationship, he should just leave.
“At that point the accused went into the bedroom and punched a mirror, causing it to smash.
“This frightened the witness. She removed herself from the address and contacted police.”
Cops went to the house and saw the smashed mirror and noticed that Lewis’ hands were bleeding.
He told them he had “got upset,” and “punched the mirror,” adding he knew he should not have done it.
Lewis pleaded guilty to a charge of behaving in a threatening and abusive manner likely to cause a reasonable person to suffer fear or alarm, in that he punched a mirror in the bedroom, causing it to smash.
Defence agent Jim Clark said his client was a first offender, with no previous involvement with the authorities, who was hoping to reconcile with his wife.
He added Lewis and his partner had been under pressure caused by a bout of her ill health last year, and he had taken to drinking too much in order to cope.
He said: “Their relationship has survived and he has suffered as a result of this matter coming to court.
“At the time he had been drinking to excess but does not now consume alcohol recklessly and he does not require additional or specialist treatment as he has adapted his behaviour.”
Mr Clark added his client regretted his conduct and urged the court to consider handing him an absolute discharge, meaning the incident would not be recorded as criminal conviction on his record.
Sheriff Mark Thorley said he would consider the application from the defence but called for further information before he makes a ruling.
Lewis, now living at Russell Street, Johnstone, will discover his fate when he reappears on October 28.
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