Man gives partner brain bleed after release from jail
Gary Lindsay was found guilty of assaulting the woman at Glasgow Sheriff Court
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A man convicted of attempted murder has been found guilty of attacking his partner while he was out on licence, leaving her in intensive care.
Gary Lindsay, 45, repeatedly struck the woman causing a bleed to her brain at a property in Blairdardie, Glasgow in February 2022.
She was in intensive care for five days and spent a further ten days in another ward.
Lindsay was found guilty of assaulting the woman to her severe injury and danger of life at Glasgow Sheriff Court. He was previously sentenced to ten years in jail in 2013 after he struck his friend on the head with a screwdriver.
Both men were at a party in the city's Broomhill when Lindsay struck his friend on the body, back and head with the tool, which had a six-inch blade.
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Punched and kicked
On the latest charges, the court heard that Lindsay repeatedly punched and kicked the woman to the head and body.
He pinned her to a bed, sat astride her and punched her head before dragging her by the hair from the bed onto the floor.
Lindsay then punched her on the head causing her to fall to the floor. Later he re-entered the property and punched the woman's head.
Jurors heard how he also hurled abusive and accusatory remarks at her, threatened her with violence and struck a door.
The woman was taken to hospital and found to have suffered a bleed to the brain.
She sustained bruising and grazing to her right eye and a bruised left eye. She also had bruises to her left arm, left chest, shoulder, upper arms, neck, thighs and lower back.
She remained at a high dependency unit for five days before being discharged.
The woman told jurors in her evidence that she then went to a different ward for ten days.
As well as the assault, Lindsay was also convicted of a separate charge of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner towards her.
Sheriff Shona Gilroy said: "There is a previous conviction on your record of attempted murder where you received ten years.
"In light of that sentence and the matters before me today, you are remanded in custody."
He will be sentenced in September.