Man jailed for alarming former partner
A Hamilton man was last week jailed for a total of six months on charges which included breaching bail conditions by attending at his former partner’s home uninvited and causing alarm.
Mark Monteith, of Miller Gardens, had gone to Catherine Rodger’s West Wellbrae Crescent home on July 15 and shouted, swore and made threats of violence towards Ms Rodger.
The 26-year-old had also struck a cell door at Hamilton Police Office following his arrest.
Monteith had admitted a charge of behaving in a threatening and abusive manner while on bail on another matter when he appeared in court a few days later.
As a result, Monteith was given a community payback order, requiring him to undergo two years’ supervision.
He was also given a non-harassment order forbidding him from contacting Ms Rodger and a three-month restriction of liberty order, tagging him and confining to his home from 8pm to 7am seven days a week.
He admitted a charge of possessing cannabis at the West Wellbrae Road address on June 30, but was admonished and dismissed on this charge.
In a separate complaint, Monteith had pleaded guilty to a charge of breaching a bail condition preventing him from approaching or contacting Catherine Rodger by texting her, approaching her, shouting at her and following her on Hamilton’s Mill Road on August 18 last year.
Monteith further admitted, in a third complaint, three further charges of breaching a bail condition by contacting, or attempting to contact, Ms Rodger on three separate occasions in August last year.
He had entered her home uninvited when she was asleep and engaged her in conversation; entered her home uninvited when she was not there and stayed there until her return, and attended at the house on a third occasion that day.
Monteith’s not guilty plea to a charge of possessing heroin at John Street on August 20 while on bail was accepted by the Crown.
At Hamilton Sheriff Court last week, Sheriff Allan Mckay revoked the community payback order previously imposed for the July 15 breach and sentenced Monteith to 100 days’ imprisonment on that charge.
Sheriff Mckay sentenced Monteith to four months’ imprisonment on the Mill Road incident, and six months – in cumulo – on the three August 2016 breach of bail charges.
These terms were to run concurrently and consecutive to a six-month sentence, imposed in December, on charges of assaulting Ms Rodger at her West Wellbrae Crescent home on December 3 last year and breaching the terms of a non-harassment order prohibiting him from approaching or contacting Ms Rodger.