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student at The University of St Andrew’s has been fined £1,000 after pouring vodka in his flatmate’s eyes, chasing her with a knife and setting fire to a room she was in.

Ewan Harvey was sentenced at Dundee Sheriff Court yesterday and has also been given an order banning him from contacting Amanda Meun, his former flatmate and victim, for five years.

The geography student claimed he had been the victim of a conspiracy by some of his other flatmates, but cried in the dock after being charged with several offences.

Sheriff Eric Brown told him: “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.