A sadistic domestic abuser subjected his partner to a two-year terror campaign which saw him order her to eat a mouse nest.
David Macdonald repeatedly attacked his lover, once running on to her foot in his car and ignoring her desperate pleas to drive it off.
The 38-year-old also incited the woman to kill herself.
Thug Macdonald, from Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire, was convicted of 14 separate assaults against her at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.
He was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison for the sick attacks in Midlothian, Edinburgh and Fife. Macdonald was also handed a 15-year non-harassment order to make him stay away from the traumatised woman.
A jury earlier returned guilty verdicts for the catalogue of crimes which took place between June 2016 and the end of 2018.
In one offence from 2016, Macdonald placed a knife against the woman’s body and incited her to kill herself.
He then struck the woman with a knife.
In July 2017, he ran over her foot, refused to move the car, then left her to crawl, severely injured, into a home.
Other incidents included instructing the woman to eat a mouse nest and making threats to kill a neighbour’s dog.
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