Thug jailed for beating up ‘vulnerable’ man is back in prison after dragging his nurse girlfriend out of bed with a knife to her throat and smashing a lantern over her head because he suspected she’d cheated on him
- David Newlands attacked former lover Jennifer Watson at her Glasgow home
- Newlands dragged her out of bed and threatened her with a knife before pinning her against a wall, punching her, and hitting her with a lantern
- He has been handed 20 months after pleading guilty to assault at court
- Newlands was previously convicted for attacking a vulnerable man
A thug who once attacked a vulnerable man has been jailed again after brandishing a knife at his former lover and hitting her with a glass lantern.
David Newlands, 27, pounced on girlfriend Jennifer Watson after suspecting that she had cheated on him at her home in Glasgow‘s Shawlands.
Newlands dragged Ms Watson, a 23-year-old nurse, from her bed, before threatening her with a knife and pushing her against a wall, a court heard.
As she tried to flee, she was smacked with a glass lantern and punched. Ms Watson managed to escape when she was yanked out into the close.
David Newlands (pictured) pounced on girlfriend Jennifer Watson after suspecting that she had cheated on him at her home in Glasgow’s Shawlands
Newlands has now been locked up for 20 months after pleading guilty to assaulting Ms Watson at her Glasgow home last December
She ended up in hospital where she was treated for head and body injuries.
Newlands has now been locked up for 20 months at Glasgow Sheriff Court after he pleading guilty to assaulting Ms Watson last December. Sheriff Johanna Johnston QC told him that he ‘abused the kindness’ shown by Ms Watson.
‘You were welcomed into her home and you ruined that with a fit of jealous rage that you failed to control,’ she said. ‘All of that must have been terrifying for her.’
Newlands was also handed a 10-year non-harassment order stopping him from having contact with Ms Watson.
He was previously ordered to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work after he and seven others admitted to chasing a vulnerable man, wrongly branded a ‘beast’, through Glasgow city centre.
Newlands and seven others admitted charges on August 4 after Ivor Miller was wrongly branded ‘a beast’ and chased until he threw himself out of a flat window in December.
But he flouted the order while bragging on Facebook: ‘I’m out, bro – easy.’
After being hauled back to the High Court and jailed, Judge Norman Ritchie said: ‘It’s always interesting to see a different view on sentencing as in “I’m out bro easy.” As they say, lol.
‘I gave you two chances. You didn’t take the chances. I hope you don’t think I’m doing this out of anger. In truth it enlivened what was otherwise a dull day.’