A JEALOUS window cleaner who was involved in two bust-ups with his former partner after reading the contents of her mobile phone messages has been fined £200 at Jedburgh Sheriff Court.

John Szkudro even got the details of the phone's lock codes from their children so he could keep tabs on what she was up to even though they had split two months earlier.

The 40-year-old pleaded guilty to a charge of threatening or abusive behaviour at a house in Croft Road, Kelso, on January 7 by breaking the mobile phone by throwing it against a wall and pushing his former partner onto a sofa.

After being told Szkudro of Bongate, Jedburgh, had been of good behaviour for the past six months, Sheriff Peter Paterson imposed the fine.