Jealous axe thug hurled weapon at partner over Russian women cheating fears

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A jealous thug hurled an axe and barricaded his terrified partner in his home after being duped by spam emails into thinking she was cheating on him with Russian women and a horoscope writer.Kenneth Douglas sneaked into Nicola Marshall's iPad and thought junk emails referring to Russian models meant she was secretly having an affair.

He also bizarrely thought she was being unfaithful with a horoscope writer because he discovered junk emails from them had been dumped in her spam folder.Douglas spent more than three hours subjecting Ms Marshall to a sustained violent attack and held her hostage as she tried to leave on more than 40 occasions, then robbing her of £100.

Perth Sheriff Court was told that he produced an axe and hurled it onto the bed in front of her and she had to sit on the weapon to prevent him doing anything else with it.Sheriff Jennifer Bain KC deferred sentence for reports and said: "This was a sustained and violent attack on your partner, during which you introduced an axe.

It started at 9.30pm and was still going on at 12.50am when police arrived."The complainer found it a frightening ordeal which will have a lasting impact.