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Community service for man who attacked his ex

Court hears behaviour was 'out of character'

A Castletown man escaped a jail term, after an attack on his ex-girlfriend which saw him barge into her home while she was in the bath.

Thirty-three-year-old Angus Stuart Galloway, of College Green, appeared before High Bailiff Jayne Hughes at Douglas courthouse.

He’d pleaded guilty to using provoking behaviour but denied assault and criminal damage, before being convicted after a trial.

The court heard he'd split with his partner and had reacted violently when she took their daughter on holiday without asking him.

After the woman returned from Germany following her Christmas break, Galloway turned up uninvited at her home on 2 January.

He barged in and found her in the bath before grabbing her by the throat and smashing her mobile phone.

His advocate told the hearing Galloway was a quiet man and a good father, and the incident had been completely out of character.

Mrs Hughes told him he'd narrowly avoided going to prison before ordering him to do 200 hours of community service and pay £1,450 in costs and £700 compensation.

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