A MAN who beat up his partner and breached a tagging order has been jailed for four months.
David Brown, 27, assaulted his partner at a house in Carvale Avenue, Salsburgh, on June 13 last year.
Airdrie Sheriff Court heard how Brown grabbed his partner on the body, pushed him against a wall, restrained him and repeatedly punched him on the head.
He then smashed a pane of glass in a window in the house. At the time of the assault, Brown was on bail from Hamilton Sheriff Court – an order imposed on him on March 22 last year, and at Airdrie Sheriff Court on April 18.
Defence lawyer John McGeechan said: “He admits that he was in breach of a restriction of liberty order.
“The reports do not give a great deal of hope for a non-custodial disposal.
“He has been assessed as being a high risk of re-offending.
“He is currently serving a sentence and his earliest date of release is January 31.”
Sheriff Petra Collins told Brown, from Mossend: “This order was a direct alternative to a custodial sentence.
“You breached it and have left me with no alternative but to impose a prison sentence.”
She added: “I will revoke the tagging order and impose a four-month jail sentence consecutive to any sentence that you are presently serving.”
