A domestic offender who ignored a court order protecting his former partner has been granted bail.
This was despite a victim impact statement sent by his ‘ex’ asking for respite from the actions of Kieron Connelly.
Connelly, 35, of Martin Crescent, Ballingry, appeared from custody at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.
He admitted that being subject of a non-harassment order imposed on April 23 last year, he breached it between September 2 and 3.
In Kirktoun Park, Ballingry and elsewhere, he repeatedly contacted his former partner by phone calls, shouted, swore at her, followed her to a car park and made threats of violence towards her in the presence of a child.
Depute fiscal Catherine Stevenson said that Connelly repeatedly called the woman on successive days.
On the second day he bombarded her with more than 60 calls over an eight hour period when she was at work.
She ignored the calls, which were coming one after another, until a work colleague told her just to answer.
She did so, with the speaker on, with Connelly immediately starting to shout and swear, saying, “I’m f****** telling you,” before she ended the call.
The woman later drove to a youth club to pick up her child when Connelly appeared in his car, which he parked in such a way to block her car.
He called her on the phone at the scene and began ranting: “You think what happened to you last time, wait and see what’s going to happen to you now.”
The woman managed to leave but Connelly continued to call her and she reported the matter to the police.
The woman wrote a victim impact statement which was submitted.
Connelly, who was seeking bail, also wrote a letter for the sheriff.
Sheriff Neil Kinnear said of the victim’s letter: “I’ve got sympathy and it’s not a pleasant situation.”
He noted the woman was looking for some “peace and quiet” from Connelly’s offending.
He told him: “I hope you can see the effect your behaviour has on people.
"Your partner, children, you make their life miserable. That’s something that’s in your record that you’ve done in the past.
“It’s just a spiral of behaviour making everyone miserable, possibly including you now that you’ve had time on remand to think about it.”
The sheriff called for reports, granted bail and Connelly will be sentenced on November 25.
Connelly has a long history of domestic offences.
In July 2019, Sheriff Charles MacNair jailed Connelly for 20 months and commented, “He has a huge record of domestically-aggravated offences. It seems he has an inability to be in a domestic relationship without committing offences.”
On that occasion, he had repeatedly threatened his former partner with violence, saying he would “smash her jaw”, “petrol-bomb her house” and “take her head clean off”.
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