A disabled man who smashed a laptop over the head of his terrified partner during a shocking campaign of domestic abuse has escaped a jail sentence.
Ross Queripel, 27, repeatedly abused and assaulted the woman over 16 months when the pair lived as a couple at his Edinburgh home. Queripel constantly monitored the victim’s movements and mobile phone use and took control of her social media accounts.
He also battered his partner over the head with the computer during one savage assault while in a separate attack he attacked her with a glass candle. Edinburgh Sheriff Court also heard on one occasion Queripel forced the woman into his car at night and dumped her at a deserted car park while she was only wearing pyjamas.