A STIRLING man appeared in court this week charged with carrying out a domestic assault in Alloa last summer.

The 30-year-old maintained his plea of not guilty when he appeared at Alloa Sheriff Court on Monday (2 March).

Chief among the complaints is the accusation that he tried to drown the woman in a bath tub.

He faces a total of four charges all alleged to have been carried out at a property on Ash Grove on 19 June.

The first relates to alleged threatening and abusive behaviour in that he is accused of shouting, swearing, and utter remarks of an abusing nature towards the woman.

He is then alleged to have assaulted her by seizing her by the body, to her injury.

During the hearing on Monday, the accused’s defence lawyer told the court that he would be tendering a special defence of self-defence in relation to this charge.

He faces a second assault charge of seizing the same woman by the head when she was in a bath, placing his hand over her nose and mouth and then forcing her head beneath the water and holding her there.

The case will now proceed to trial on 24 March with an intermediate diet on 16 March.