A MAN smashed up his estranged wife’s car in anger after witnessing her cosying up to someone else.
On Thursday at Alloa Sheriff Court, Konrad Kempski pleaded guilty to kicking and jumping on a vehicle in Tullibody’s Westview Crescent on April 23 this year.
The 48-year-old admitted striking and breaking the windows of the motor, as well as damaging the bodywork with a hammer or similar implement.
Fiscal depute Graham McLachlan explained that the accused and complainer had been in a relationship for many years, but were separated on the night in question.
The ex-couple were drinking in the same pub with separate friends, but at around 11.30pm they got into an argument with each other.
Kempski left the premises, but witnesses later spotted the accused damaging his former partner’s car as liabled in the charge.
Mr McLachlan stated that the rear offside window was smashed in, the roof was dented and the windscreen was heavily cracked. The car was deemed “beyond repair” after Kempski caused thousands of pounds worth of damage.
The police later traced the accused, who thereafter admitted drinking alcohol and made admissions in respect to his disorderly conduct.
Defending, Kelly Howe claimed that her client was “disappointed in himself”.
She explained that Kempski and the complainer had been married for 25 years and had children together.
At the time of the incident, the couple had been separated for 18 months and were living independently from each another.
Kempski, who had been watching football with friends and drinking from 5pm, was aware his ex had moved on but this was the first time he had seen her being “intimate” with another man in front of his face.
The accused left the pub to drink more alcohol at a friend’s house. Angered and upset, he attended at his ex’s address and damaged the car he bought for her when they were together.
Sheriff David Mackie told the accused: “I’m sorry to see you in court with this.”
Sheriff Mackie fined Kempski, of Muirside Road in Tullibody, £1,000 for his outburst.