Ayrshire husband jailed after dancing in living room

Nov 6 2009 by Lisa Boyle, Ayrshire Post (main ed)

A WOMAN returned home to find her estranged husband dancing in her living room.

But Robert McCreadie didn’t take kindly to being told to leave – he flipped out and smashed the living room window.

At Ayr Sheriff Court this week, McCreadie, 40, pleaded guilty to shouting, swearing and repeatedly banging on the window until it broke at Dalmilling Crescent on October 19 this year.

Sheriff John Montgomery was told that at around 9pm, McCreadie’s estranged wife returned home to find him dancing drunk in the living room.

She asked him to turn the music off and he swore at her.

McCreadie became increasingly agitated and started banging on the living room window until it smashed.

Sheriff Montgomery was presented with two pages of previous convictions for McCreadie – including one for a domestic assault where he was jailed for 60 days.

Defence lawyer Peter Lockhart told the court that his client had been drinking all day and came home to his old house.

Mr Lockhart added: “He accepts in his merriment he was dancing and singing. A row followed and he lost the plot.”

McCreadie was jailed for 60 days and ordered to pay his wife £200 in compensation.