Ex-cop terrorised girlfriend with pliers

AFORMER police officer who terrorised his boxer girlfriend could be facing jail. Derek McNee, 37, preyed on the woman, 21, over nine months at his home in Glasgow’s Hyndland.

The terrified woman recalled seeing the “devil in his eyes”.

Her ordeal included being assaulted, a threat to kill her as well as tearing up her designer jacket.

But, it was the tattooed thug who moaned the victim had “ruined his life”.

McNee was convicted after a trial at Glasgow Sheriff Court of engaging in a course of abusive behaviour against the woman.

He was bailed pending sentencing next month.

The court heard claims how the couple had been “besotted” with each other.

But, the woman – an amateur ladies fighter – went on to suffer at his hands between March 1 and December 3 2019. McNee ranted and swore at his younger lover, accused her of being unfaithful as well as quizzing her on what she was doing on social media. He became violent by punching, hitting and spitting on the woman.

The trial heard raging McNee also brandished a pair of pliers at her.

The woman recalled one incident on November 30, 2019.

She said: “He told me if I did not leave, he would smash my skull off the door.”

She told how she was then slapped three times by McNee. She went on: “I could see the devil in his eyes, but I punched him.”

McNee went on to tear-up her expensive Moncler jacket with a pair of tweezers.

The court was told how the woman and her mother were later driving to England when they got a call from an unknown number.

It was McNee who threatened: “I will f***ing kill you.”

During a further 11-minute call, McNee pressed the woman on the ongoing court case.

It was said he told her “she had ruined his life”. He had been ordered not to contact her.

The woman initially testified at the summary trial in February and March 2020.

It was January this year when she finally returned to the witness box – and claimed she had lied at the previous hearings.

She insisted she had been “manipulated” by the police to “make up a story” about McNee.

Convicting McNee, Sheriff Lindsay Wood told him: “In all my time, this trial has troubled me as I have never had a witness giving two different accounts a year apart.

“She gave her evidence last year and was confident. I did not get the impression she was making things up.”

McNee – who had pleaded guilty to a separate charge of breaching bail by telephoning the woman – will be sentenced pending reports.