A MAN has been jailed after an early morning Boxing Day attack on his partner.

Then, respite bail conditions telling Paul McNaught not to contact his victim, Glasgow Sheriff Court heard he continued to harass her by phone and social media - even while in Barlinnie prison.

The court was told of a string of offences committed by McNaught, who also uses the name O'Donnell, against the woman.

On December 26 last year the 41-year-old and his then-partner were socialising at home with another couple.

The victim went to bed while the other three continued drinking.

Around 2am, McNaught, who was described as "inebriated" by his defence brief, was carried into the bedroom and helped into bed.

He then began an argument with the victim, which was interrupted by her sister.

The depute fiscal told the court: "He had attempted to awaken the witness and stated, 'I know you can hear everything I'm saying'.

"The accused was going on about the witness still loving her ex partner and this resulted in a verbal altercation between them.

"This then became physical and at this point the second witness, who was in another room, heard her say, 'Haw, leave me, I'm asleep'.

"The second witness made her way to the bedroom and she observed the accused to jump off the bed quickly.

"The witness got up off the bed and ran to the kitchen and called police on 999.

"The second witness followed her to the kitchen and observed red marks to her face, neck and shoulders."

In a second incident on March 6 this year, at about 8.30pm McNaught and his ex-partner were in the living room at home when a child in their care kept entering the room.

McNaught, from Wyndford, became agitated and said: "This was supposed to be us time".

His partner made to leave the property due to the accused's attitude and he became angry, breaking a light switch and kicking a hole in the bathroom door.

McNaught was given bail conditions not to contact his partner or approach her address.

But between March 10, 2021 and March 28, 2021, he repeatedly sent WhatsApp messages, made phone calls and contacted her friends on social media to ask for messages to be passed along.

In a further incident on March 10, the victim received messages from McNaught shortly before 1am asking her to come and see him but she did not reply.

Later that day, around 1pm, she contacted police due to concern for McNaught and said he had breached his bail conditions.

At 1.45pm the witness was at home when she received a phone call from a private number and, on answering the call, it was the McNaught saying the police had been to see him before hanging up.

McNaught's defence brief said: "There is a complicated background to this case.

"During periods of their relationship they tended to live together and apart.

"On December 26 the couple, who had reconciled, had been socialising at home and drink had been taken by all parties.

"She went to bed, he kept drinking. He was inebriated and put into the room.

"An argument ensued and he accepts he behaved that way.

"Such is the complex nature of this case, the witness asked for the bail conditions to be relaxed and her lawyers gave a letter of support for the accused.

"He suffers from mental health problems and health problems and is in desperate need of support in relation to these issues.

"He is a doting father and the mother would not support him going to prison."

Sheriff Valerie Mays sentenced McNaught to a total of 471 days in prison.