by Craig Borland

A WOMAN who carried out a series of assaults on her husband at a property in Clydebank has been told the case against her will be closed if she can stay out of trouble for the next three months.

Fiona Bolton carried out the assaults at a flat in Fleming Avenue in November 2014 and January and February of the following year.

Bolton, 38, had pled guilty at a previous hearing to throwing a glass, and a mop containing water and bleach, at her husband in November 2014.

She had also admitted repeatedly hitting him on the head on January 18, 2015, and jumping on his back and punching him on February 12 that same year.

In addition Bolton, now of Edmonstone Court, Danderhall, Edinburgh, had pled guilty to swearing at her husband and placing him in a state of fear and alarm on the same date as the first assault.

Bolton stood trial on those charges, and two more counts of assault, at Dumbarton Sheriff Court, but the trial was halted after the Crown accepted her pleas of not guilty to assaulting her husband by pouring boiling water on him, throwing boiling water at him, stamping on his foot, throwing a glass tumbler at him and trying to hit him on the face with a glass tumbler.

Bolton’s solicitor, Stephen Wight, told the sentencing hearing on August 16: “The couple are together again. She and her whole family are subject to fairly close scrutiny from the social work department.

“She has completed a post-graduate course in counselling, of all things, and has an application pending for full-time employment. She is turning her life around.”

Sheriff Maxwell Hendry told Bolton: “I’m pleased to hear of the progress you are making. I just want to look at you once more, and if the progress continues I will be able to bring the case to an end at that stage.”

Sentence on Bolton was deferred until November 24.