Linwood lout Ian Rooney was banged up for eight months for three assaults on the women.

Paisley Sheriff Court heard that Rooney, of Linwood’s Bridge of Weir Road, targeted the pair in Paisley, Renfrew and Linwood.

On June 17 last year he saw his ex, Louise Manson, standing at a bus stop in Paisley’s Causeyside Street.

He approached his former partner, who was pusing a pram with a young child inside, but she tried to ignore him and walk away.

The 23-year-old would not take no for an answer and leaned in “very close”, spat in her face five times and then took off.

A distraught Manson told social workers about the incident who, in turn, contacted the police.

Officers tracked Rooney down and took him in for questioning.

When the case against him called at Paisley Sheriff Court this week it emerged he had also assaulted her in Renfrew’s Inchinnan Road by grabbing her by the arm and kicking her. He also punched her in the head, causing swelling.

And, on June 24 last year, at a party in Linwood, he assaulted his pregnant sister.

A row broke out at the Clippens Road bash and it became so heated that he ended up pushing his sister Charlene, who was three months’ pregnant at the time, to the floor.

He once again fled the scene but cops caught up with him after they were informed about the incident.

Kirsty McGeehan, defending, asked for Rooney to be placed on a community payback order.

She explained that he was given an 18-month CPO in September and had been doing well on the structured punishment.

But he pleas fell on deaf ears and Rooney was banged up for eight months because of the crimes he had committed.