Overview
- Darren Duthie received a 10-year sentence at Manchester Crown Court on Monday, with six years in custody and a four-year extended licence.
- He must serve two thirds of the six-year prison term before the Parole Board can consider his release.
- The court heard he poured petrol through her letterbox in 2021, broke in and attacked her with a knife in 2022, and in 2023 vandalised her mother’s grave and hit her with a hammer.
- While in prison in March 2024, he sent a graphic threat from an illicit phone, which led Edinburgh Police to issue a “threat to life” warning and pushed the victim to move to Manchester with her children.
- After his release he breached orders by using withheld calls and a fake “British Britannia” Facebook profile, and the victim told the court that Scotland’s justice system had “failed us since day one.”