A cop has gone on trial accused of a course of abusive behaviour in the direction of her same-sex associate who was pregnant together with her little one.
PC Nicole Miller, 31, and her former associate had agreed to have a child collectively by IVF, Falkirk Sheriff Court docket was advised.
However her former associate, who already had a baby of her personal, mentioned that over the last 16 months of their four-year relationship "short-fused" Miller had repeatedly shouted and sworn at her, repeatedly advised her she was a foul mom, repeatedly pressured her to go away their Stirlingshire residence, tried to limit her contact together with her personal dad, and hid her automobile keys when she tried to flee again to her mom.
Giving proof from behind a display screen, her former associate advised the primary day of a abstract trial anticipated to run over numerous separate days, that she and Nicole had acquired engaged in November 2018.
She mentioned: "Nicole had been by some points within the police the place she had been off long-term.
"I knew she actually needed a baby, however she did not need to carry, and I believed it could assist our dynamic."
They each had remedy, however when she was 35 weeks pregnant with Miller's child, there was "a disagreement".
She mentioned she advised Miller that she needed to go away, end her being pregnant at her mom's, and provides start there.
Nevertheless she could not discover her automobile keys.
She mentioned: "I packed a bag however my keys weren't there. I appeared for the spare set they usually weren't there both.
"I requested her the place they had been and she or he mentioned she wasn't going to inform me.
"She mentioned I used to be going nowhere together with her child.
"She was nearly taunting me concerning the keys."
She mentioned Miller then "threw" her bag out of the home, and kicked a smaller bag so exhausting it went over their automobile.
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She mentioned: "I used to be actually closely pregnant, carrying two luggage, and I had gone into actually unhealthy abdomen pains."
She mentioned of Miller's behaviour throughout their relationship: "She'd scream and shout and swear. She would not have management over herself. She has a very unhealthy mood.
"I began turning into so withdrawn.
"I felt trapped, managed and manipulated.
"I did not know if I used to be coming or going generally.
"I simply did not no the place to show."
She mentioned Miller advised her she was a foul mom only a few days after she'd came upon she was pregnant with their little one, who was born in April 2020.
She mentioned Miller additionally advised her that her Dad did not love her and he was "homophobic".
She mentioned: "I did not really feel I used to be capable of have as a lot contact with my Dad as I needed to due to the fights that will come off the again of it."
She advised prosecutor Sarah Smith that the connection got here to an finish - "tearing her away" from her recently-born little one - after an argument regarding her father.
Miller later despatched her former associate a 16-page letter referring, amongst different points, to the daddy.
It acknowledged, "If you happen to proceed making an attempt for a relationship with him, I am unable to have a relationship with you."
Miller's former associate mentioned: "It made me really feel like I needed to selected between my associate and my father."
Miller, of Grangemouth, denies participating in a course of home abuse in the direction of her between April 1st 2019 and August twentieth 2020.
The trial, earlier than Sheriff Wyllie Robertson, sitting with no jury, will proceed on April nineteenth (2022), when Rochelle will face cross-examination by Miller's lawyer.