Evening Telegraph (First Edition)

Man spat at and snorted on girlfriend of six years

- BY CIARAN SHANKS

A SNORTING thug who sprayed mucus on h is e x-g i rl fr ie nd a nd spat on her face because she wasn’t speaking to him has been locked up.

Szymon Pawlowski, 36, saw red after the woman refused to talk to him for hours after an argument in their Hilltown flat. Pawlowski had irked his ex-partner after he refused to listen to her complaints about not feeling “feminine”.

However, he then turned violent after growing sick of being ignored and pinned the woman against a table before spitting on her face and snorting mucus from his nose.

A sheriff remanded Pawlowski in custody for reports after he refused to provide an alternativ­e address for bail purposes.

Dundee Sheriff Court was told the pair had been in a relationsh­ip for six years but began arguing at midday on Wednesday.

The woman approached Pawlowski in the bedroom and said she wasn’t feeling feminine or attractive. Pawlowski, however, said this was “her problem, not his.”

Fiscal depute Carol Doherty said the woman stopped speaking to him and they had several minor arguments until matters escalated.

She said: “At around 8pm, the accused told the complainer he had had enough of her not speaking to him.

“About 10-15 minutes later, the accused approached the complainer in the bedroom and slammed a board game on to the bed shouting and swearing in Polish including saying ‘I’m going to throw this glass at you’ while holding the glass.

“The accused followed the complainer to the kitchen where he pinned her against the table and then spat and snorted out mucus and sprayed it on to her face.”

Pawlowski then grabbed the woman forcefully by the shoulder before the police were contacted.

Appearing from custody, Pawlowski, no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to behaving in a threatenin­g or abusive manner on April 29 at Dallfield Court by adopting an aggressive attitude, shouting, swearing, making threats and abusive remarks, pinning her against a table and a wall using his body weight, spitting on her face, propelling nasal mucus onto her face and seizing her by the body.

Pawlowski appeared without legal representa­tion and when asked by Sheriff Jillian MartinBrow­n if he could provide an alternativ­e bail address, he said: “No.”

Pawlowski is scheduled to return to court next month.

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