Jailed, man who spied on his wife

A FIREMAN who carried out secret surveillance on his wife and repeatedly attacked her during a ten-year campaign of abuse was jailed for 18 months yesterday.

Alistair Foggo’s career with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service ended in disgrace after he was sacked for bringing the brigade into disrepute with his systematic bullying behaviour.

Foggo, 46, spied on his wife and secretly tracked her movements. He had also carried out attacks on a young child and another woman he formed a relationship with.

He had attacked the boy – including using a hot spoon to burn him – from the age of three and had left the child scarred by his experiences.

A jury at Perth Sheriff Court found the full-time fireman guilty of a series of assaults on two women and a child between January 1997 and June 2010.

Sheriff Lindsay Foulis said: ‘The fact remains that you were convicted of assaulting, and in the widest possible sense being abusive to partners over more than 13 years.’ Jealous Foggo – who had an affair with his wife, Jacqui Foggo, while he was in a relationship with another woman – was afraid she was having an affair behind his back.

The jury heard that Foggo placed tracking devices into mobile phones and computer devices and repeatedly quizzed Mrs Foggo about her movements. He also placed a dictaphone under the driver’s seat of her car to listen to her conversations.

The court was told that he was a possessive and violent bully who had assaulted his previous partner Sally Pound and then cheated on her.

Foggo, of Stanley, Perthshire, was found guilty of assaulting Miss Pound at their homes in North Berwick, East Lothian, on various occasions between 1997 and December 2001.

He was also found guilty of attacking Mrs Foggo on numerous occasions between 2001 and 2010.

Passing sentence Sheriff Foulis said: ‘These are serious offences. It is an experience that no child should have to be the subject of.’