A MUSSELBURGH man has been placed on a restriction of liberty order after threatening to share intimate images of his former partner.

Callum Mooney will be electronically tagged and have to stay within his home on the town’s Eskview Crescent between 8pm and 6am each night for the next 162 days.

The sentence was handed down after he had pleaded guilty to committing the domestic abuse over a two-week period that involved him threatening to disclose intimate pictures and videos of the woman that he had on his phone.

Mooney, 30, also made abusive remarks towards the woman and, on one occasion, seized hold of her and pulled her from a sofa onto the floor.

A second occasion saw Mooney again physically grabbing the woman and pulling her from a toilet, all to her injury.

He admitted carrying out the abusive behaviour at an address on Eskmills Road, Musselburgh, between April 14 and 27, 2022, when he appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court last month.

Sentence had been deferred for reports and Mooney returned to the dock for sentencing last Thursday.

Sheriff Peter McCormack sentenced Mooney to the 162-day electronic tagging order and issued him with a non-harassment order banning him from having any contact with the woman for the next five years.