A St Andrew’s University student chased his flatmate with a knife and poured vodka in her eyes (Picture: Alamy Stock Photo)
A St Andrew’s University student has been fined £1,000 after chasing a student with a knife.
Ewan Harvey was sentenced at Dundee Sheriff Court in Scotland yesterday after he also poured vodka in his flatmate’s eyes and set fire to her room.
Harvey also has an order banning him from contacting the student and his former flatmate, Amanda Meum, for a total of five years.
He said he had a close relationship with Amanda but denied that they were in a relationship, saying he had a long-term girlfriend.
‘He did not. Ewan started chasing her round the table with the knife. Ewan was a bit crazy, it was probably part of the act he was trying to portray. It was very crazy and alarming.
‘Amanda was worried but was trying to look cool in the situation. There were nervous giggles. It wasn’t a very big table. It was perhaps four times round the table, he then put the knife to her throat. It was about one centimetre away. It was about one centimetre away. it was not touching her, but it was very close.
Harvey threw the knife and placed it near Amanda Meum’s throat (Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
‘I think he then put the knife on the table because at that point everyone was shouting at him to put the knife down. He was unhinged. That incident felt a lot more full-on than being a joke.
‘We were shocked. It was worrying because it was a dangerous situation for everyone.’
Sebastian Flame, a management student at the university, said he initially thought Harvey had been showing off but then he grew very concerned when Harvey pulled the knife out and was refusing to put it down.
Mr Flame added that Harvey was confronted by his flatmates about serious bruising on Amanda’s legs.
Mr Flame said: ‘Amanda was sitting on his lap. She was saying the same as myself, that he should stop, and she was asking him to hand the knife over to her.’
The geography student, who cried in the dock after he was charged with a number of offences, claimed he was the victim of a conspiracy by some of his other flatmates.
Ewan Harvey was sentenced at Dundee Sheriff Court (Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
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Sheriff Eric Brown said: ‘I was not impressed by your evidence which I considered to be unconvincing and self-serving.
‘I did not consider your evidence to be credible or reliable and nothing said by you in your evidence caused me to have a reasonable doubt about the Crown case.’
‘The position of your defence is that the Crown witnesses have conspired and, in effect, fabricated or embellished evidence and have been telling lies.
‘I believed their evidence.’
Harvey was previously found guilty of acting in a threatening or abusive manner because of chasing his flatmate with a knife, putting the knife near her throat and also throwing it and stabbing it into a table.
The student was also found guilty of assaulting his flatmate by pouring vodka in her eyes, pushing her into a wall, throwing a glass bowl at her and placing her in a chokehold as well as pushing her and kicking her.
He is also guilty of ‘culpably and recklessly’ setting fire to an empty chocolate box in his flatmate’s room.
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