Inverness Sheriff Court places man who threatened to kill a woman under social work supervision
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Matthew Baker (40) told a woman he would dispose of her body by feeding it to pigs.
Baker, who used to live in Inverness but now lives in Bremners Walk, Wick, was placed under social work supervision for three years.
He was also placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register for the same period and made the subject of a two-year non-harassment order to protect the woman concerned.
The court heard previously how Baker caused a woman and others to be subjected to crude sexual communications without consent, for his own sexual gratification.
He also admitted threatening the woman and refusing to allow her to exit a vehicle.
All the offences occurred between July 2016 and 2018.
Aside from the remark about feeding her to pigs, depute fiscal Roderick Urquhart previously said that, on one occasion in December 2017, Baker pestered the woman for sex against her will.
He told the court: “He called her offensive names and spoke inappropriately in front of children about sex in general.
“In another incident, when she was a passenger in his car, she told him she wanted to go home but he ignored her and drove to Beauly instead, mocking her as she repeatedly asked to be taken home. He was mocking her, saying ‘take me home, take me home’ in a child’s voice.”
Sheriff Gordon Fleetwood replied: “It could have been libelled as abduction.”
Baker was sentenced separately earlier this year to 240 hours of unpaid work after he was convicted of twice violently shaking a baby in his care and assaulting a teenage boy.
Depute fiscal Niall Macdonald said this week that the victim in the latest case had said she was fearful of the accused and wanted a non-harassment order to be imposed.
Also ordering Baker to carry out 180 hours of unpaid work Sheriff Fleetwood warned him that if he breached any part of his sentence he faced a significant period of imprisonment.
