A baby-faced abuser who would not let his girlfriend go to the lavatory alone and threatened to kill her household has been locked up for greater than three years.
Luke Mackie, 21, subjected Nicole Connor, 23, to nearly one yr of terrifying bodily assaults and excessive coercive management - together with choking her and eradicating her cellphone and automotive keys.
He would refuse to let her use the lavatory alone, and hurled her to the ground throughout violent outbursts. When NHS nurse Nicole discovered the braveness to finish the connection, Mackie adopted her to work and her residence, and hounded her with cellphone calls and abusive textual content messages.
Nicole informed the File she's going to by no means forgive her abuser however a weight has been lifted now he's locked up.
She mentioned: "I am relieved he is behind bars. He cannot simply stroll away and do it to another person - that was my largest worry.
"He is scum and I'll by no means forgive him. He is not sorry for any of it - he is solely sorry he received caught. However I do not need his apology.
"I do not assume he ever thought this present day was going to return.
"It now appears like justice has been served and I can begin placing this behind me."
Nicole's mum Michelle, 56, added: "It is the very best Christmas current I might ask for."
Mackie pleaded responsible to 12 expenses at Dundee Sheriff Court docket in October together with the coercive management of Nicole between October 1 2020 and July 31 2021. He additionally pled responsible to 4 expenses towards a later girlfriend, 4 different assaults, together with two assaults on law enforcement officials, two counts of threatening behaviour and possessing cocaine.
Branding his behaviour "actually harrowing", Sheriff Gregor Murray sentenced him to 40 months imprisonment.
Upon his launch he can be subjected to supervision for 12 months, and has been ordered to not strategy or contact Nicole or his different sufferer for 3 years.
Nicole started a relationship with Mackie in October 2020 however it turned violent inside weeks. She informed how he would flip his nasty aspect on "like a change" then keep it up as if nothing had occurred. On one event, Nicole says he throttled her within the kitchen earlier than having a shower moments later and singing the tune Identical Denims by Dundee rockers The View.
After the connection ended he continued to harass her for 2 months.
In a single sinister message, he warned police would possibly develop into concerned, writing: "Higher hope once I get in contact with the police it is not your title that they are talking about - not be a very good day."
Nicole now takes anti-anxiety medicine and sleeping tablets to get to sleep. However she continues to be haunted by evening terrors. After her ordeal, she moved again in together with her mum Michelle, so she felt protected.
Mackie went on to satisfy one other girl who he subjected to a recent marketing campaign of terror. He struck the second girl on the top and physique at a taxi rank in Dundee in January 2022, then attacked two law enforcement officials who struggled with him.
A month later, at a Premier Inn lodge in Edinburgh, he brandished a boiled kettle at his accomplice, pointed a glass bottle at her neck and threw her onto a mattress earlier than spitting in her face and refusing to let her go away. He then spent a taxi journey to Waverley station calling her names, hurled her cellphone on a tramline and informed her to not board a practice earlier than hanging her within the face and kicking over her suitcase.
Mike Quick, defending, requested the sheriff to place Mackie on the Caledonian Programme rehabilitation scheme as a substitute for custody. He informed the courtroom: "It was I assumed going to jail was the very best factor for many younger males however as time has gone on individuals arrange programmes and I imagine, in the long run, this could be higher for society."
Nevertheless, Sheriff Murray mentioned: "I've taken account of a number of mitigating elements: you're a first offender and also you have been keen to just accept your guilt at an early stage. However these offences have been actually harrowing."
Mackie confirmed no emotion as he was sentenced at Dundee Sheriff Court docket on December 14, backdated to his remand date of February 28.
He winked at his mother and father as he was led out of the dock.
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