Bully tore down blinds

A John Lewis worker tore down kitchen blinds before trying to shove his ex out their home.

Graeme Lennie, 35, lashed out after Kerry McVey, 35, told him he was not doing enough around the house.

He pulled the shutters from the wall, bawling: “I paid for half of them.”

The bully was found guilty of domestic assault after turning on his former partner during a trial at Paisley Sheriff Court.

Ms McVey told how she tried to reason with him before he began pushing at her.

She said: “I felt he’d been having very bad mood swings.

“It was getting worse and worse, it was too hard to live with and I couldn’t live with him. I asked him to leave as I wasn’t able to live in that environment any more.

“It was about him not pulling his weight. At first he said he wasn’t leaving.

“He was pushing me on the shoulders.

“He then ripped down my kitchen blinds and said he’d paid for half of them.”

Neighbours spotted Lennie push the immigration officer towards the door of the home in Gockston Road.

They told how she “did not react” as he tried to force her outside on April 17.

Lennie admitted they had been involved in a “tussle” but claimed he was “reacting to what she was doing”.

Sheriff Frances McCartney convicted him of attacking the woman and insisted he could be banned from contacting her.

Lennie has been ordered to return for sentencing next month.