A PRESTONPANS man who made malicious phone calls after he broke up with his partner has been admonished after staying out of trouble for six months.
Ross Colquhoun split up with his girlfriend last year and soon began making the phone calls to the woman and her mother.
One message saw Colquhoun, 31, state: “Wish your mum a happy Mother’s Day because it will be last one she sees.”
The woman immediately called the police to report the incident following the call on July 26 last year.
The company director also called his ex-girlfriend’s mother, who told Edinburgh Sheriff Court he threatened her by stating “he was coming for me, he was going to get me”.
Colquhoun denied the allegations and stood trial at the city court last December but was found guilty of two offences by Sheriff Adrian Fraser.
Sentence had been deferred for Colquhoun to be of good behaviour and a 12-month non-harassment order was also imposed.
Colquhoun returned to the dock last Wednesday, where the sheriff was told that he had stayed out of trouble since his last appearance.
Sheriff Fraser said he was content to warn Colquhoun, of Suthren Yett, of his future behaviour and hand out an admonition.
Colquhoun’s ex-girlfriend told the court that the couple began dating in November 2018 and their split in June last year had “not ended well”.
She said that, following the break-up, she began to receive numerous calls from a withheld number at all hours of the day but did not answer most of them.
She said that she did answer some calls at about 10pm on July 26 to find it was Colquhoun on the other end.
She said: “The first one I answered, the person said: ‘Wish your mum a happy Mother’s Day because it will be the last one she sees.’
“It was Ross Colquhoun.”
The woman said she hung up and decided to call the police to report the threat and while on the line she received the second call.
She informed the police operator about the call and was told to answer it and speak to him.
She added: “He said: ‘Nee naw, nee naw the police are coming.’ I felt uncomfortable.”
The woman’s mother also gave evidence to the court saying that Colquhoun also threatened her during a call to her that evening.
She said that during the call, Colquhoun told her “he was coming for me, he was going to get me”.
She added: “I was upset at what Ross had said as I was in the house on my own.”
Colquhoun was found guilty of behaving in a threatening manner by repeatedly phoning his ex-partner at her home in Port Seton and uttering threats of violence on July 26 last year. He was also found guilty of phoning the woman’s mother at her home in Dunbar and uttering threats of violence on the same date.
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