A police officer accused of a six-year campaign of domestic abuse was recorded allegedly making threats to his former partner, a court has heard.
PC Fraser Ross was heard saying he "f****** snapped" and "I’'ve done things I've never thought I would" at Hamilton Sheriff Court on Monday.
Ross, 41, is on trial for the alleged assault of his former girlfriend Anne-Marie Hirdman, 43, on a number of occasions between 2013 and 2019, at his home in Motherwell, Lanarkshire.
Ross denies assaulting Miss Hirdman on three separate occasions, and has denied two abusive behaviour charges.
Sheriff Ross Macfarlane QC noted that, in a lengthy recording of an argument between the couple, PC Ross had said, among other things: "How about I just push you down the f****** stairs?
"If you're going to walk across a motorway, you're going to get run down.
"Long before anything gets violent with us, you're f****** warned.
"You're coming at me more and more, then you're surprised when I f****** snapped.
"I've done things I've never thought I would."
The judge said the recorded comments could be used to corroborate the alleged assaults and one of the abusive behaviour charges.
But on Monday he agreed with defence lawyer Gordon Williams that there was insufficient evidence to convict PC Ross of one of the abusive behaviour charges, and acquitted him of that charge.
Ross is still accused of the other four charges he faces - three assaults and one of threatening behaviour.
Ross denies repeatedly grabbing Miss Hirdman, pinning her to the ground and placing his hand over her mouth in October 2017.
He also denies pushing her and headbutting her in September 2018, and trying to choke her after forcing her to the ground, placing his hand over her mouth, digging his knee into her body and pushing her on the body, all to her injury, in August 2019.
And he denies behaving in a threatening or abusive way towards her, between December 2013, and March 2019, by repeatedly shouting, swearing, behaving aggressively towards her, threatening her and making "derogatory remarks."
The trial before Sheriff Ross Macfarlane QC continues.
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