A comedian jailed for abusing two women has failed to have his sentence reduced.
John David McDade, who uses the stage name JD Brown, was found guilty in March of a string of offences against Leigh McDiarmid and Rhea Jack.
In April, McDade, 37, of Coatbridge, was jailed for four years and three months at Airdrie Sheriff Court and was ordered not to contact his victims for 20 years.
He launched a legal bid to have his sentence reduced but it was refused by the appeal court.
McDade abducted Leigh, locked her in his home and forced her to stay overnight.
During one attack, he restricted her breathing by seizing her by the throat and holding her down. He was also found guilty of a three-year campaign of abuse against Rhea.
Sentencing McDade, Sheriff Derek O’Carroll called him a “serious danger to any woman unlucky enough to be entrapped in your manipulative and controlling snares”.
In 2013, he was convicted of assaulting his ex-wife and two other women.
