Man kicked out of bed for snoring ordered to pay woman compensation after slashing her tyres

A Dundee man who slashed a woman’s car tyres after she kicked him out of bed for snoring has been ordered to pay her compensation. John Wade took a knife to the woman’s car after she booted him out in the middle of the night. Wade stormed out of the house, stopping in the kitchen to pick up a knife.

He then went to the 31-year-old woman’s car and slashed two of her tyres and set off the car alarm as her daughter looked on at 10.30pm on March 11. Fiscal depute Eilidh Robertson told Dundee Sheriff Court: “There was an argument about the accused’s snoring, during which time she asked him to leave. He went downstairs, leaving her in the bedroom, and she went downstairs to lock the door behind him.



“She saw he had walked into the area outside where the vehicle was parked and, with a knife, slashed the tyres of her vehicle, setting her car alarm off. Her young daughter, who was awoken during the disturbance, watched the accused slash her mother’s tyres with a knife.” Wade, 26, was arrested at his home at 3am on March 12.

He pleaded guilty to a charge of vandalism. The court was told Wade was not in a relationship with the woman but had been staying with her at her home for a few days before the incident. Mike Short, defending, said: “He did vandalise two tyres and accepts that he should not have done this. It is a rather unsavoury incident.” He added: “The complainer has forgiven him.” Sheriff Kenneth McGowan ordered Wade to pay £200 compensation to the woman.