THE disgraced husband of former Clyde 1 DJ Suzie McGuire wants answers about charges being dropped against his estranged wife and maintains he was attacked by her.
Derek Mitchell, 35, who left his wife feeling like a broken woman who tried to commit suicide in March 2013 in a bid to escape a "life of terror", could still be facing jail for a string of domestic assaults in 2011.
But before being sentenced the court will hear from the Crown what the position is about Miss McGuire's alleged attack on her husband in December 2012.
If it is not accepted that an assault took place, the court will need to have a further hearing with evidence about the alleged incident, before Mitchell is sentenced.
Earlier this month Mitchell was told by letter "it would not be in the public interest to continue with the prosecution of your wife".
Yesterday, on the day Mitchell was due to be sentenced, defence lawyer Billy Lavelle said: "He asserts he was attacked, very seriously, on 9 December 2012.
"He was in the house having asked his wife to come home because it appeared she had been heavily drinking and she came home on that evening and she was with her friend Laura Provan and another person Nicole Weaver who gave evidence in the trial.
"She went in to his phone and found a text message to the nanny, it was in relation to a song that the two of them had been discussing, and she took offence to that.
"According to Mr Mitchell, pulled him out of the toilet, threw him down stairs and attacked him to such an extent that he ended up in hospital. He had head injuries for which the injuries were super glued.
"He was assaulted, according to him, by various implements including two kettles which he was hit with.
"Also he asserts he was injured by his wife inserting the heel of a stiletto shoe into his anus."
Procurator fiscal depute Amanda Gallagher said she was not able to give a position on behalf of the Crown at that stage.
Sheriff Susan Sinclair told Mitchell she needed "full information" before sentencing and adjourned the case until December 22 and continued his bail.
Last month after a three-week trial at Paisley Sheriff Court, the accountant was convicted of three assaults between May and December 2011, including breaking his wife's wedding finger after a local fair.
He was also found guilty of committing a breach of the peace at the family home in Eaglesham in November 2009, the day after a family party.
Mitchell drunkenly pulled his wife's wedding finger back - breaking it, in front of her daughters in May 2011 near to their home on Pulnoon Street, Eaglesham.
He lodged a special defence of self-defence in relation to the broken finger claiming he was trying to stop his wife attacking him, but the jury rejected this version of events.
Ms McGuire gave evidence from behind screens at the court and described her husband as "controlling" and "manipulative".
Mitchell, she said, was a "prince charming that turned into a Jekyll and Hyde character" who had anger management issues and that she could not predict.
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