INVERNESS SHERIFF COURT: Man sentenced for grabbing partner by the neck during heated row
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The break-up of a relationship prompted a 40-year-old Inverness man to try and choke his partner.
Inverness Sheriff Court heard that Rudney Boelijn was "driven by hurt" when he twice seized the woman by the neck during an incident at their home in Castle Heather Drive on June 6 last year.
He restricted her breathing causing her an injury. Boelijn previously admitted assault to injury and danger of life and assault to injury. Sentence had been deferred for a background report.
His defence counsel, Bill Adam told Sheriff Eilidh Macdonald: "He is very sorry for the distress caused and accepts his actions were completely unacceptable.
"His reactions were driven by hurt due to the relationship breaking down.
"He is genuinely remorseful, not for himself but for the complainer."
Fiscal depute Pauline Gair had earlier told the court: “During the course of the evening the witness noticed the accused was in a bad mood.
“She tripped over a bed cover and he seized her by the neck.”
The court heard the woman suffered bruising as a result of the assault.
Sheriff Macdonald ordered Boeljin, of Maxwell Drive, Inverness, to participate in a rehabilitation programme for male domestic abusers and remain under social work supervision for two years.
He was also banned from contacting his victim for three years.
The sheriff told him: "These two charges are serious. On each occasion you grabbed this lady around the neck area. It was dangerous and it can sometimes result in fatal consequences.
"It is unacceptable that this was your reaction to your emotions."
