Woman beat up boyfriend after he ‘gloated’ about cheating

A scorned Dundee girlfriend beat up her cheating partner and smashed up his house after he “gloated” about going home with another woman.

Mother-of-two Tracey Currie repeatedly punched Steven Band on the head and body, repeatedly headbutted him and pushed him on the body at a property in Pitkerro Drive on January 4.

She also smashed, struck and damaged various items of furniture, electrical items and white goods while shouting and swearing.

Dundee Sheriff Court heard the 33-year-old flew into a rage after Band “gloated about the sexual prowess” of the other woman.

Currie was ordered to carry out 80 hours of unpaid work in the community in three months.

Currie, of Helmsdale Drive, had been in a relationship with

Band for 10 years and the pair had been out drinking on the night of the incident.

Defence solicitor Theo Finlay said Currie suffered from previous trauma, which caused her to drink excessively on occasions.

He added: “The circumstances of the offence were somewhat unusual.

“Clearly if there hadn’t been alcohol there wouldn’t have been such an extreme reaction.

“She had previously confronted him about the infidelity and it was the manner in which he gloated about the sexual prowess of the other partner, the perversity of it, that caused her to explode.”

Sheriff Lorna Drummond accepted that Currie had difficulties in her life, adding: “Nonetheless, you can’t be punching somebody on the head. You do have a previous conviction.”