Woman’s terror at dog killer’s hands

A DOG killer attacked his partner, destroyed her property and made murder threats during a month-long campaign of terror.

Bradley Simpson removed a ring doorbell from the woman’s home and tried to sell her phone to Cash Converters, before smashing her laptop into pieces and striking her with a games console.

The distraught woman eventually managed to escape from his clutches and was helped by two strangers.

Simpson – who was convicted in 2022 of stabbing his mum’s German shepherd Buddy to death with a screwdriver – is now behind bars after admitting the abuse at Dundee Sheriff Court.

The 26-year-old has a string of previous offences including domestic violence, underage sex crimes and assault to permanent disfigurement.

“The behaviour was nasty, selfish, violent, aggressive and manipulative. You appear to have learned absolutely nothing over the years,” Sheriff Alastair Carmichael told him.

Simpson began visiting her flat in Dundee regularly in June 2023. Prosecutor Lora Apostolova said things quickly became volatile, with Simpson punching her on her lower back and kicking her in the chest.

The woman sat on the stairs crying before Simpson poured a two-litre bottle of water over

her head.

Matters further escalated on July 1 at Simpson’s home in St Andrews with the fiscal depute adding: “The accused picked up his PlayStation and put it over his head and threw it at her.

“The complainer hit it away with her hand and it fell on the floor.

“The complainer tried to calm the accused down and convince him to go to the shops in the hope he would open the front door.

“When the accused opened the door, the complainer started to run towards the police station in St Andrews.

“The accused chased her and was pleading with her not to go to the police.”

Two strangers walked the woman away from Simpson and into their address.

At 2am the next day, Simpson phoned the woman and said: “You’re a shady wee rat if you think you’re actual away to cheat on me. I will batter and murder whoever you are with, you wee f ****** mink.”

Simpson, formerly of Watson Avenue, St Andrews but now a prisoner at HMP Perth, admitted engaging in an abusive course of conduct between June 1 and July 2 2023 in Dundee and St Andrews.

Defence solicitor Mike Short said his client had “very little insight” into his offending but urged Sheriff Carmichael to look at a communitybased sentence to properly address his domestic offending.

Simpson, however, was jailed for 24 months and made subject to a four-year non-harassment order.

Buddy.